food crisis

For a time, ethanol has become universal condemnation that led to one of the reasons the food crisis.

She said buying the cheaper imported rice worked well until the worldwide food crisis of two thousand eight.

Some of these people say that as fall approaches, North Korea is in the midst of its worst food crisis since its late 1990s famine.

During the food crisis of 2007-08, rice was one of the last staples to soar in price.

In the face of the global food crisis, volunteers hope that everyone can cherish their meals and return to a life of frugality.

Otherwise, the report says, the food crisis of the past two years in much of the world "will become structural in only a few decades" .

The failed rainy season is a major factor in the food crisis, but it is also the result of many years of conflict.

The Zetas have predicted that this is how the food crisis will be presented to the public, in the main - empty shelves.

In today's report on the global food crisis in Taiwan, we take a look at how the price of soybean oil is affecting producers and consumers.

The U. N. meeting is expected to come up with a plan of emergency measures to solve the immediate global food crisis.

As the global food crisis grows day by day, the question of how to feed the world in a stustainable way is top of the agenda once again.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the food crisis has forced millions of families into poverty and hunger.

India is considering restricting extravagant feasts at the weddings and parties of the rich to help tackle a domestic food crisis.

But it will take more than a year for the world as a whole to recover from the food crisis of 2008.

In 2012, there was a very serious food crisis, which affected all the Sahel countries, including those where refugees are now hosted.

A separate report says twenty-two countries have suffered from a hunger and food crisis for at least eight years.

Blindness to the influence of these factors is reflected in the world's response to the food crisis so far.

O. K. , I said that these factors behind the food crisis aren't anyone's fault, but that's not quite true.

U. N. Humanitarian Chief John Holmes says that the long-standing crisis in the Horn of Africa has been made worse by the global food crisis.

The global food crisis has put a new focus on the debate over the benefits of a vegetarian diet.

China, India, Brazil and parts of Africa have done well on that score since the 2008 food crisis.

To its admirers, the innovations in seeds pioneered by Monsanto are the world's best hope of tackling a looming global food crisis.

The effects of the weather phenomenon known as El Nino have extended the dry spell in Guatemala, triggering a food crisis in the country.

I call on you to take bold and urgent steps to address the root causes of this global food crisis.

Nomura produced a research report detailing the countries that would be crushed in a food crisis.

During the food crisis, export restrictions and bans affected even purchases by the World Food Programme and for humanitarian purposes.

But the food crisis that spring, which set off riots in at least a dozen countries, prompted the spree.

Another food crisis does not look out of the question.

Elsewhere, the food crisis of 2008 will test the assertion of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, that famines do not happen in democracies.

The result would be higher prices along with an exacerbation of the global food crisis.

To pull through the food crisis, the local government had to draw on its grain reserves and take other emergency measures.

Some countries in the region have been among the most affected by the food crisis.

So while the costs of the food crisis bore heavily upon the poor, the benefits accrued more to farmers in industrialised countries.

Today, low-income countries and the poor are actually more vulnerable than before the last food crisis.

We face a fuel crisis, a food crisis, a severe financial crisis, and a climate that has begun to change in ominous ways.

The answer is to educate the vast community of concern for the poorest countries on the bitter realities of the food crisis.

Even more, we estimate that the effect of this food crisis on poverty reduction worldwide is in the order of seven lost years.

The overwhelming response to the cash-for-work project in northeastern Liberia is just one sign that the food crisis is not over.

The local government had to draw on its grain reserve and take some emergency measures to pull through the food crisis .

We'll talk more next week about how the researchers link that change to the effects of the recent food crisis.

That's why the food crisis of 2011 is for real, and why it may bring with it yet more bread riots cum political revolutions.

I expect substantial progress to be made, particularly on aid to countries affected by the food crisis.

Make no mistake, the current food crisis has the capacity to transform global politics. There is nothing more fundamental than food.

Webster describes the food crisis as complex, with drought being just one of the factors.

Only when the famine begins to affect the ones in power do they officially announce that the country is in a food crisis.

More than one billion people went to bed hungry during the 2008 food crisis.

Now I'll tell you something about our research project The World Food Crisis on behalf of our group.

In recent years, non-grain crops instead of grains such as corn etc. has been used for fuel ethanol production because of food crisis.

One of those is to exacerbate the global food crisis.

An often-mooted solution to the food crisis is to breed plants that produce the ultimate high-yielding, low water-consuming crops.

World leaders at a UN summit in Rome have pledged to reduce trade barriers and boost agricultural production to combat a global food crisis.

But F. A. O. official Hafez Ghanem says lower prices have failed to end the food crisis in many poor countries.

The local government had to draw on its grain reserves and take other emergency measures so as to pull through the food crisis.

In an era of tightening supplies and rising prices, our hot and hungry world could face a perpetual food crisis.

Aid agencies say a new crop of rice needs to be planted within weeks to avoid a prolonged food crisis.

"It is unwise to say no to GM technology considering the food crisis the world faces, " Clive James, chair of ISAAA, told SciDev. Net.

Banbury says the food crisis is probably the worst since the late 1990s when an estimated million North Koreans died of hunger.

Discussions on currency manipulation, the food crisis, and protectionist subsidies should route through Geneva.

Consider how things have played out in the current food crisis.

There was, last week, a glimmer of hope in the world food crisis. Expecting a bumper harvest, Ukraine relaxed restrictions on exports.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has published three essays addressing the global food crisis.

Despite the food crisis, visitor numbers to the center have returned to pre-earthquake figures.

While their products generally are sold only in local areas, their continued existence helps explain why China is facing a food crisis.

In the 10 years before the 2007-08 food crisis, the global bill for food imports averaged less than $500bn a year.

Proactive measures by governments in support of dryland farmers could alleviate the global food crisis, concludes Dar.

and because trade and openness itself could be undermined, the food crisis of 2008 may become a challenge to globalisation.

For some staples, India must turn to already stretched international markets, exacerbating a global food crisis.

The coming food crisis, warns the author, is as intractable as global warming, and no less urgent.

There are many more families like Aida's who need help, as the food crisis is far from over.

Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa have exposed further a negative consequence of biofuel production: the global food crisis.

Mr. Ban just returned from a trip to Europe and West Africa where he says the gravity of the global food crisis dominated discussions.

The United Nation's World Food Program warned Wednesday "time is running out" to avert a "humanitarian food crisis. "

Countries were very vulnerable to the food crisis and vulnerability might increase with changes in climate.

Drought and poor harvests led to a food crisis in Niger.

Nomura's description of a food crisis is a prolonged price spike.

The worst drought in 60 years and ensuing agricultural failures have been major factors in causing the food crisis in the region.

The new rapid response facility stands alongside other efforts by the World Bank Group to address the global food crisis.

The researchers say Gambia and Ivory Coast suffered more during the food crisis than Mali did.

The food crisis has put agriculture and its role in development in the spotlight.

The rapid food crisis financing facility has provided immediate relief to countries hard hit by food prices.

The food crisis response program offered more than just quicker access to seeds and fertilizers.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says Central American countries need to draft a plan to confront a looming food crisis together.

To avoid another food crisis, what we need is global coordination of these efforts.

Spikes in food costs have led to riots in Tunisia and Algeria recently, much like they did during a food crisis in 2008.

Niger has been hit by a double disaster as recent floods compound an existing food crisis, a UK aid agency warned.

Community Action Program provides immediate assistance to Nigeriens battling floods, drought and food crisis.

They have watched helplessly as rising prices in recent months have created the worst food crisis in more than thirty years.

'Left unchecked, the food crisis will badly undermine recent gains in poverty reduction, ' said ADB Chief Economist Changyong Rhee.

And the causes of water scarcity are much the same as those of the food crisis: demand exceeds a finite supply.

The recent food crisis has caused world leaders refocus their attention on the global food system and the issue of hunger.

By 2008, 80 percent of Haitians lived on less than $2 per day, and the country found itself in the grips of a food crisis.

The U. N. estimates the food crisis in the Horn of Africa is affecting 12 million people.

The cost of commodities such as corn and soyabean has surged this week to levels not seen since the food crisis started in 2007.

The consequences of this food crisis go far beyond economics.

and now the food crisis is being acclimated to animate the affluences of the GM industry.

Analysts state that the present food crisis is not a short-term problem, it is a structural issue.

Some FAO member countries have expressed concern about a possible repeat of the 2008 food crisis.

Today, the family is receiving assistance under a special food crisis fund, established by the World Bank Group.

He also ties the misallocation of resources and corruption to the current food crisis in Kenya.

But the emerging global food crisis is likely to add to inflationary pressures.

That happened to millions of people two years ago at the height of the world food crisis.

The whole of drought-and conflict-wracked southern Somaliaremains in a serious food crisis.

Beddington said that in the short term, development and increasing wealth would add to the food crisis.

If climate change is the most fundamental factor, the global food crisis is the immediate problem.

"These floods worsened the situation in Niger and Chad, which are already facing a severe food crisis" , OCHA said.

Prime Minister Gilani and President Bush also discussed the global food crisis.

The increase in local crops prices is a new feature of the food crisis.

The dramatic rising of the world food prices from 2005 had created a global food crisis and social unrests in many countries.

That year experienced a fuel crisis, a food crisis, and above all, a severe financial crisis.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation is hosting a three-day summit to solve the food crisis.

The price rises have revived fears of a repeat of the global food crisis of 2007-08.

The world is facing a food crisis as the worst US drought in 50 years pushes agricultural commodity prices to record highs.

Help arrived through the World Bank's Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP).

Under the leadership of the local government, the villagers rose to the serious food crisis caused by the floods.

The reduction in harvest as population continues to grow will create a food crisis.

The G8 has warned that, without a doubling of spending by 2050, the global food crisis "will become structural" .

But even then, some analysts predicted a food crisis would return when the economy recovered.

These could nullify efforts by farmers to increase planting areas in response to the highest prices since the 2007-08 food crisis.

Food prices are spiking beyond the levels of the 2007-2008 food crisis, and the Arab world faces sweeping political change.

Then, when the food crisis hit, the cost of foreign rice shot up.

He urged both immediate and long-term measures to tackle the global food crisis.

Writing in today's Financial Times, Robert Zoellick, the World Bank president, unveiled a 10-point plan to tackle the global food crisis.

Others are man-made: overpopulation causing a food crisis or the accidental development of dangerous new technologies.

But the food crisis of 2008 has revealed market failures at every link of the food chain (see article).

The food crisis is starting to concern African governments.

To support this agenda, the World Bank is launching a global food crisis response facility.

Or will rural de-population and water shortages threaten a food crisis?

And does it mean that the so-called world food crisis is returning?

An escalating global food crisis could bring the problem of hunger home to the US and other developed countries.

Do soaring wheat prices mean we're headed for a repeat of the 2007-08 food crisis?

The food crisis has re-emerged as a top geopolitical concern in the past month.

Since 2008, a world food crisis have triggered chain reactions in the fields of economy and politics.

The food crisis has already brought down one government.

"I don't think we are heading to a new food crisis, but certainly there is a risk, " Mr Diouf added.

There was, last week, a glimmer of hope in the world food crisis.

Then, when the food crisis hit, the cost of foreign riceshutshot up.

Is the current food crisis just another market vagary?

When the food crisis hit, the World Bank's Global Food Price Crisis Response Program (GFRP) allocated $10 million to Yemen.

One cause of the current food crisis is drought.

The time to act is now -- before the food crisis of 2011 becomes the new normal.

One more thing: one reason the food crisis has gotten so severe, so fast, is that major players in the grain market grew complacent.

The world is facing a slow-motion food crisis now. It should learn from Brazil.

Whatever happened to the food crisis?

Now, we are facing food crisis we were told eat less rice. Fine, we can go for bread, however the price of flour also hiked.

Will there be a global food crisis?

Half the planet could be hit by food crisis by 2100 Half of the world'.

In the decade before the 2008 food crisis, when prices were generally low, such impetus was lacking.

What is the potential for a food crisis?

In the mid-1970s some countries built up stocks when they should have releasing them, and this made the world food crisis worse.

A top FAO official recently said on the agency's website that a new food crisis appears unlikely.

A second food crisis in as many years is a wake-up call.

We've all heard about the East African food crisis but I've been in Ethiopia seeing first hand the impact it's having on children's lives.

The number stands at more than 925 million now -- higher than before the food crisis.

Can free markets solve the food crisis?

Such is the case with the food crisis.

But the world food crisis of 2007-08 showed that food prices are not influenced solely, or even mainly, by cyclical factors.

A locust infestation in 2004 coupled with drought the same year and in 2005 has caused a severe food crisis in Niger.

Many countries suffered food shortages as well as high prices at the height of the food crisis last year, and many remain vulnerable.

While global food prices have declined from their peaks of 2008, prices are still higher than before the food crisis that year.

Then, when the food crisis hit, the cost offarmforeign rice shot up.

The world is facing a slow-motion food crisis now.

Fact is, the food crisis of 2008 never really went away.

That happened to millions of people 2 years ago at the height of the world food crisis.

The previous record low was set in 1973, also when the world was facing a food crisis.

In addition, there is a "much closer linkage" between fuel and food prices than before the food crisis.

The food crisis of the past 18 months has sharpened worries about how to feed the teeming slums.

WHO is contributing to the work of the High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis led by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon.

It is important to get the present food crisis into proportion.

This is the gravest food crisis in the world and the numbers are getting worse.

For many in Nigeria, including some government officials, the global food crisis last year was a wake-up call.

A tsunami was the image of choice to describe the blow of last year's food crisis.

Potash moved into the spotlight in the 2007-08 food crisis, when prices hit $1, 000 a tonne, up from $150 a tonne in 2006.

It is building big and showing generosity such as its donation of 8, 000 tonnes of rice during a recent food crisis.

But who is responsible for the current world food crisis?

But the food crisis of 2008 suggests farm prices in developing countries may be stickier than that.

fourth, we should right recognize the essence of food crisis and make it a long-termed strategy to safeguard our food security;

to strengthen food safety knowledge publicity and education, strengthen the consumer food crisis consciousness and human rights concept;

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