Famine News

Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily about 30 percent of the continent's total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization .

Non-governmental organizations gathering in Rome on Monday criticized the declaration issued at the opening day of the World Summit on Food Security, saying it was "empty of concrete measures to tackle global famine." The three-day summit on food security is being held here at the Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters.

Kampala Performance embattled British American Tobacco is diversifying in a bid to cover losses accruing from progressive decline in tobacco production.

First Baptist Church, 112 N. Alameda St., will serve as the Carlsbad collection point for Operation Christmas Child.

Via The Washington Times :A Her hair tightly woven into an African-style braid, Jenni Williams raises her arm in the air as she asks the crowd at a popular Washington cafe to chant "the healing wind of WOZA." The phrase has been repeated over and over since 2002 by women protesting against the government on the streets of Bulawayo, the ...

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center was recently awarded a five year $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development from the American people to support the product development phase of virus resistant cassava research currently underway at the Center.

"THE world's attention is back on your cause." That was Bill Gates talking to agricultural scientists gathered recently to honour the late Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution.

ERDOGAN PLEDGES TURKEY'S CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR FAO TO ELIMINATE FAMINE Speaking to reporters in Rome yesterday, on the sidelines of the World Summit on Food Security, held by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization , Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, "More than 1 billion people worldwide are suffering from famine.

So far, Capt. Jackie Smith of the Salvation Army in Antioch has only three turkeys to give out to the nearly 90 families who have requested Thanksgiving food baskets this year, invoking biblical images of feeding multitudes with a mere handful of loaves and fishes.

A political row over Russia's refusal to recognise the Holodomor is obscuring the horror of a famine in which millions died Around a well-stocked Ukrainian dinner table one evening recently, I watched in surprise as a friend's grandmother carefully swept together the breadcrumbs on the table in front of her, then ate them from the palm of her hand.

Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders underscored how the almost total absence of agriculture in the agreement could lead to widespread famine and food shortages ...

It wasn't famine that killed Jamal Ali's mother. She died in a cholera outbreak that swept through their Ethiopian village when at last the rains came.

Living in the times of Indira Gandhi was never boring; she had a penchant for making news.

World leaders at a United Nations food summit in Rome today agreed a strategy to help the world's one billion starving people by increasing aid to farmers in developing countries - but failed to pledge the specific funds the UN had hoped for.

Welsh journalist Gareth Jones sneaked into Ukraine in March 1933, at the height of a famine engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, to expose the horrors of the orchestrated famine.

As the Earth's warming rapidly speeds toward the "point of no return," scientists are holding their breath and world military powers are preparing for the catastrophic consequences, warns Gwynne Dyer.

As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households.

For nearly 20 years, the sovereign state of Somalia has existed without a permanent government.

There are fates worse than death, and "2012" is one of them. While war, famine and disease are doing just fine at culling the herd and making the planet uninhabitable, they are trumped here by a faster and more efficient - although interminable, at 158 minutes long - version of global demise that has something to do with sunspots and the earth's ...

In death he has become known as "the man who knew too much" a ' a fearless young British reporter who walked from one desperate, godforsaken village to another exposing the true horror of a famine that was killing millions.