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Pakistan calls for combating poverty through people?s empowerment

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 27 days ago

Senior officials of Planning and Development Division also attended the meeting. Speaking at the inaugural session, Additional Secretary Foreign Affairs Eizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said "We are meeting in a challenging times" adding said that the dramatic increase...

Grocers: Don't blame us for high prices --

Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 27 days ago

Labour Minister Rennie Dumas, saying grocery owners are not responsible for the high food prices. Last Friday while speaking in the House of Representatives, Dumas said despite a decrease in the prices of food items globally, local grocers were yet to...

FAO: Food shortage to worsen crisis

Manila :: Philippines | 28 days ago

The world financial crisis has the "potential to be far worse" than previous meltdowns because of "high food prices and food shortages, and the steady erosion of agriculture and rural economies," the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization warned...

Concerted global efforts urged to address food crisis

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago

World leaders on Thursday called for concerted global efforts to address the food crisis now buffeting some parts of the planet. "Food prices in parts of Haiti and Ethiopia are up to 500 percent higher than normal," said United Nations Secretary-General...

World › Billion going hungry on World Food Day, says Oxfam

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

World Food Day Thursday, saying the financial crisis had sent food costs soaring and the global total of people in hunger to nearly one billion people. The British-based aid and development charity said rising food prices had pushed an extra 119 million...

Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty. Interview At Atlanta Community Food Bank

Atlanta :: GA :: USA | about 1 month ago

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogforfood An interview with Bill Bolling, founder of the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB), on 10-15-08, Blog Action Day for Poverty. Video archive of live-streamed interview is here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogforfood...

World urged not to forget food crisis

Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago

As global governments pour trillions into shoring up ailing banks, World Food Day will be marked on Thursday by calls to invest massively in farming to combat burgeoning hunger and a price spiral. The day comes amid a particularly a bleak prognosis on...

Bleak outlook for developing nations

Xinhua :: China | about 1 month ago

With world attention trained on resolving a financial crisis in Western economies, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the poverty-fighting institution is warning developing countries to prepare for tougher times. In an interview with Reuters ahead...

Chippewa Herald, Wisconsin: The Brown Bag is Back

Ara :: India | 2 months ago

While the days of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches may be a distant childhood memory, the "brown bag" lunch is once again becoming a popular fixture on the office desk. With recent economic factors influencing food purchases, America is looking to the...

Fighting poverty and hunger

Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago

According to Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, this growing global poverty is not just a threat, but also “the undoing of many of the development and health gains that have been achieved over the last decade.” Lugar, along with Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.), is...

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