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Waste Not Biofuels Cause One Billion People To Go HungryAmsterdam, Holland (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 As we begin the new decade, despite an abundance of food, worldwide, more than 1 billion persons are living with hunger. A Special Issue of Agricultural Water Management, "Investing in Water For Food, Ecosystems and Livelihoods", published by Elsevier, provides insight and recommendations regarding causes and potential solutions to the hunger crisis. Investments in agriculture have not kept pace with the need, particularly in developing countries. Feeding the world in 2050 will require a substanti ... read more |
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Sao Paulo (AFP) Jan 29, 2010Brazil's Sao Paulo state - South America's most important economic region - is experiencing its wettest summer in 63 years, with flooding and landslides killing at least 69 people, officials said Friday. Most of the fatalities, which have climbed steadily since December 1, have occurred in Sao Paulo city, where several neighborhoods and roads are underwater and some ramshackle dwellings ha ... more  
Niamey (AFP) Jan 29, 2010Some 2.7 million people in the largely arid west African country of Niger face hunger because of inadequate rain for their crops, an official said Friday. "The inquiry shows that about 20 percent of the population is in a vulnerable situation, or 2.7 million people," Hamani Harouna, an official with the government's early warning system, told public media. To avoid a famine, the authorit ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Jan 30, 2010Italy is to stop fishing for bluefin tuna, the lucrative but over-exploited species beloved of Japanese sushi fans, for 12 months, the European Union said on Saturday. The move, enabled by financial aid from Brussels set aside for the forced tying-up of boats, comes weeks ahead of a European decision on whether to back calls for the fish to be officially listed as an endangered species. ... more |
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Philippines fears high food prices due to India droughtManila (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 The Philippines, the world's largest rice importer, said Thursday it feared global food prices would spike this year as India suffers its worst drought in nearly four decades. "There's been a big drought in India which affected half of her territory and which may affect global food prices," Economic Planning Undersecretary Dennis Arroyo told reporters. Arroyo listed the Indian dry spell as among the potential obstacles to a full Philippine recovery this year from the global financial crisis, whi ... read more |
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