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Policy to minimise dependence on fossil fuel has backfired
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 [...]
Continue reading...Alarming Rise in Malnourished to Food and Fuel Price Crises - World Bank
Friday, October 10, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...High Food Prices plunge another 75 M People into Hunger, UN Agency
Friday, September 19, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...WB launches programme to counter food crises
Friday, May 30, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has launched a one point two billion dollars programme to fight the global food crisis including two hundred million dollars in grants to poor countries facing the most dire need. Reports suggest that the new programme aims to speed up aid to those who are affected by high food prices. World [...]
Continue reading...Food crises endangers children
Friday, May 30, 2008
The UNICEF has said that an acute food crisis has endangered thousands of children suffering from malnutrition around the world. According to a report the world body said that recent food crisis has badly impinged on efforts to save lives of African children facing malnutrition. It is feared in the report that prevailing crisis could [...]
Continue reading...Ban Ki Moon has asked to speed up Task Force on Global Food crisis
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Keeping in view the Global food crisis Secretary-General United Nations Ban Ki-moon said “If not properly handled, this crisis could cascade into multiple crises affecting trade, development and even social and political security around the world. Mr. Ban said that he will get the international Task Force on the global food crisis “moving at [...]
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