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General Motors’ sales in North America fell by 20% owing to falling demand of pick-up trucks and sports utility vehicles. GMs quarterly loss amounts to $15.5bn (£7.8bn). All other auto giants too are facing the crisis. Nissan reported a 42.8% fall in..
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It’s late morning and Minara Khatoon’s five young children haven’t eaten yet. They sit huddled on the dirt floor of their mud thatch hut, waiting as...
made popular Sep 21 2009
The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor,...
made popular Sep 9 2009
Photo: Food Supplied by WFP in remote Nepal
World Food Program (WFP) has threatened to suspend food aid in Nepal refuting the reports that the food distributed under...
made popular Aug 24 2009
Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls.
The mice are hunted in corn fields after the...
made popular Aug 10 2009
Kenya is facing a severe shortage of food and water with more than 10 million people requiring urgent assistance.
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga on...
made popular Jul 23 2009
Last weekend I decided to go to the club in the early morning to enjoy some quietness before it got crowded, and to relax under the warmth of the sun. So I headed to...
made popular Dec 16 2008
A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report titled ‘Growing Unequal Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries’ has...
made popular Oct 30 2008
Colombians live in a country that has many resources to produce food. We have plenty of water, the possibility of having all sorts of crops and a variety of animals...
made popular Oct 1 2008
Whatever happens with the ongoing negotiation impasse in Zimbabwe, there are social realities that no agreement will be able to reconcile. Even if the process of...
made popular Oct 1 2008
Here comes as a shocker bomb from the US: It seems two Asian emerging giants are responsible for the food crisis all over the globe. First, it was Condoleeza Rice, the...
made popular Sep 13 2008
Somewhere in the world today, one man or woman (or both) are going to tuck into the finest linens that money can purchase after wining and dining in the finest of...
made popular Jul 24 2008
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
made popular Jul 4 2008
President Museveni speaking at the commonwealth heads of government conference on reform of international institutions in London re-affirmed that the current global...
made popular Jun 11 2008
Across the Pacific, where so many already depend on aid to survive, governments are nervously planning how to best fight the looming threat of hunger.
made popular Jun 6 2008
I don’t know whether or not to agree with Australia’s foreign Minister Stephen Smith that Mugabe’s presence at the World Food summit in Italy is obscene.
I am in...
made popular Jun 5 2008
Amplified by the current food crisis, food-deficit countries (countries that can not produce sufficient food for their own production), are now looking beyond their...
made popular Jun 5 2008
I would usually try to say something witty. Something clever or penetrating. This topic is just a little too serious for my usual intellectual flippancy.
I do not...
made popular Jun 4 2008
The dramatic increase in global food prices by 83% over the past three years has literally brought the world to its knees. Envoys from 26 Latin American and Caribbean...
made popular May 30 2008
The world has suddenly been taken unawares by a food crisis. On a local level we are all witness to rising inflation levels where food prices have shot up. Family...
made popular May 20 2008
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Is this the perfect storm of worldwide panic and desperation created by the financial, food and fuel crisis not to mention climate change or is it media hysteria or is...
made popular Apr 25 2008
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