World Food Crisis

Joel Brinkley: Remember summer’s 'world food crisis'?

Joel Brinkley is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times and now a professor of journalism at Stanford University.With all eyes focused on the global financial crisis, it's not surprising...

Output and spending drop in Japan amid global financial turmoil

Tokyo - Japan's industrial output dropped in October because of slow overseas demand for cars and high-tech devices amid the global financial turmoil as consumer prices rose for the 13th-consecutive month, leading Japanese to...

Winter of hunger looms in Afghanistan

The farmer squats barefoot on packed earth in front of his two-room mud house. Ghulam Sakhi, 50, says his family will run out of food in mid-January — only a third of the way through Afghanistan's frigid winter. As the days...

2ND LD: Japan's inflation slows in October as energy costs shrink+

TOKYO, Nov. 28_(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING. ADDING INFO, COMMENT) Japan's key inflation indicator rose for the 13th consecutive month in October, but the pace of its growth slowed on lower energy price hikes, the government said...

Food 'An Enormous Problem' for People Living with HIV

Burundi: Food 'An Enormous Problem' for People Living with HIV Posted to the web 27 November 2008 Bujumbura When Diane Ndayizeye* was diagnosed with HIV three years ago, she was relieved to discover she could get her...

A model in solving world food crisis

Today, in a global food crisis of lagging productivity and punishing prices, world leaders are calling for a second revolution. After the pioneering agronomist, Norman Borlaug, introduced his "green revolution" of hardier seeds...

Fuel from food? Forget about it

In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom. By ARTHUR MAX The Associated Press Costly food Food prices increased steadily for the past three years until...

Sahel Africans face hunger despite bumper harvest

Source: Reuters By Daniel Magnowski DAKAR, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Poor people in Africa's arid Sahel region will go without food despite bumper harvests this year, as wild price moves on world markets put staple ...

TV News Footage - ICRC Emergency Appeal 2009: War, Drought, World

Donderdag 27 november 2008 | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ] The ICRC will need more than one billion Swiss Francs next year to fund its humanitarian operations. At 996.9 million Swiss francs, the field budget...

Help urged over global food crisis

A major charity has urged people to dig deep despite their own financial problems to help victims of the food crisis around the world. Oxfam said millions more lives would be wrecked next year despite falls in global prices. It...