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Policy to minimise dependence on fossil fuel has backfired

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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Pakistan Economy Watch said decision to use ethanol as fuel could result in severe food crisis and environmental hazards. Apart from energy, it requires four to five gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. Later the water becomes toxic. Increase in greenhouse gases is also an effect. The recent global food crisis [...]

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Alarming Rise in Malnourished to Food and Fuel Price Crises - World Bank

Friday, October 10, 2008

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New York: The number of malnourished people around the world is set to increase by 44 million to almost 1 billion by the end of 2008 due to the combined impact of the food and fuel price crises, according to a World Bank report. Poor families around the world are being pushed to the brink [...]

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High Food Prices plunge another 75 M People into Hunger, UN Agency

Friday, September 19, 2008

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New York: Rising food prices have pushed 75 million more people into the ranks of the world’s famished, and threaten efforts to realize the goal of halving the number of those in hunger by 2015, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. According to new figures released by the agency ahead of [...]

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Pakistan calls for action plan to make food affordable

Friday, May 16, 2008

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UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for a concerted plan of action that must include emergency actions, including humanitarian aid, to enable severely stressed developing countries to provide affordable food to their peoples. “It (the action plan) must also provide inputs to ensure larger food production in the near term, inter alia, to ensure supplies and [...]

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