For the first time in history, the number of people in the world experiencing hunger has exceeded one billion this year, up by 115 million since 2007. Every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes. One out of four children–roughly 146 million–in developing countries is underweight.
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For the first time in history, the number of people in the world experiencing hunger has exceeded one billion this year, up by 115 million since 2007. Every six seconds ...
News
The maneuvering of the world’s biggest rice exporter Thailand to get the Philippines, the world’s biggest rice importer, to speed up liberalization of its rice sector during the ASEAN summit ...
The recent typhoons highlighted land and crop use conversion as a factor in worsening the effects of disasters on food production and the need to ensure adequate land for food ...
Special Features
The intensifying food crisis that started with the steeply rising prices of staple food from 2005-2008 had resource-hungry rich countries and private investors scrambling for vast tracts of land in ...
The threat of climate change on human society and the biosphere as a whole has emerged as a critical and urgent issue. The impact of climate change on human production ...
Statement
27-29 September 2009, Penang, MalaysiaWe, 113 participants from 22 countries representing peasants, small farmers, agricultural workers, women, indigenous peoples’, fisherfolk organizations, and health, environmental and consumers CSOs met
Globalization Issues
The role of multilaterals as ideal delivery platforms for the neoliberal agenda were torpedoed by popular protests and profound disagreements even among WTO members. From the Seattle Ministerial in November ...
Four years after its last minister-level gathering in Hong Kong in 2005, the 7th Ministerial Conference (MC) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is slated to take place in Geneva ...
Book Review
Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives By Carolyn SteelChatto and WindusThe End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food IndustryBy Paul Roberts
Stats and Numbers
1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union; (Source: FAO news release, 19 June 2009)
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