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world food crisis

17 Oct 2011

Governments called on to tackle the root causes of global hunger

Oxfam has called upon governments meeting at the UN’s Committee on World Food Security in Rome to tackle the root causes of hunger.
18 Oct 2010

Inequality, not shortages, blamed for world food crisis

The growing food crisis, which is leaving millions of people without enough to eat, has inequality at its root, says a leading development agency.
2 Aug 2010

Face-to-face with global hunger

There are a billion hungry people in the world today, most of them in Asia, says Shay Cullen. Tackling hunger is both an issue of justice and a challenge to faith.
26 Jul 2010

Food - taking back responsibility

“Eleanor’s courgette has grown so much this past week, and she’s checking it all the time”. My friend’s young daughter was in the children’s programme at the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales Conference last weekend in Derbyshire – ‘Our Daily Bread – Food security, People and Planet’.
16 Nov 2009

Millions will go hungry unless UK and others act on food crisis, says agency

Millions of people will go hungry when future global food crises strike unless the world’s half a billion small-scale farms receive urgent support from the UK and other governments, says development agency Progressio.
21 Jul 2009

Lutheran agriculturalist wins prize for Africa food research

Gebisa Ejeta, a professor of agronomy at Purdue University in the US, has been named recipient of the World Food Prize for his vital research on sorghum in his native Africa.
23 Jul 2008

World food crisis needs global solutions, says report

The dramatic rise over the past twelve months in global food prices poses a threat to the very poorest and to humanity as a whole, says a new specialist report from the UN - which is seeking to coordinate global action.

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