'Global food prices have roughly doubled in three years.' The price increases and their impact on hunger were discussed at the World Food Summit in Rome in early June. 'The current crisis means that another 100 million hungry may join the 854 million who already lack sufficient daily nourishment. An immediate response should include policies that discourage grain hoarding, that reapportion the way food aid is delivered and that ensure that subsidies for food purchases are carefully targeted to r more...
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UNICEF’s yearly flagship report, The State of the World’s Children, launched 22 January 2008, makes a call to unite for child survival. Here is one in a series of related stories.
UNICEF and the Government of India have partnered to train auxiliary nurse-midwives and community health workers in Lalitipur.
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Food security has always been an issue in many developing countries and this is a major global concern. Unusual climate condition, water and fuel crisis, feed for livestock etc. are now creating more uncertainties about the conditions under which food will be available in the global economy. Food prices have recently risen dramatically across the world. The main impacts are being felt in poorer developing countries where up to 90% of household income is spent on food.
Australian Government a more...
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Este One Pager pone en duda la validez de las mediciones de la pobreza de “un dólar al día” y “dos dólares al día” en América Latina. El autor sostiene que hay otros métodos que mejor capturan el estado de la pobreza.
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Around the world, an increasing number of people do not have enough food to feed themselves and their families. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) calls
this the “biggest challenge” faced by the agency in its 45-year history.
This report explores the long-term causes of the global food emergency, as well as the specific current day factors that are converging to increase global hunger.
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The term “green revolution” was coined in 1968 by then Director of the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) to describe the so called ‘success’ in India
and Southeast Asia of an agricultural model that increased crop production in wheat, maize
and rice. The essential features of that model comprised of a technology package involving
the use of external inputs such as inorganic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, laboratory
developed hybrid seeds, mechanisation more...
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The global biofuels boom risks harming poor people in poor countries by forcing them off land they depend on, says a report published today (2 June) by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. But the report adds that biofuels are not all bad, and shows that their production can also allow poor groups to increase their access to land and improve their livelihoods if the right policies are in place.
The report comes as wor more...
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