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UNDP for a development deal on climate issues
Singapore :: Singapore | about 7 hours ago
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Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Ajay Chhibber, has said that the massive increase in fuel prices from 2006 and the huge follow-on increase in food prices “are very heavily interlinked” with the more recent financial crisis. Asia-Pacific region”...
Tags: International UNDP, development deal, Asia-Pacific, food prices, India, financial crisis, Mr. Chhibber, China, Singapore
Hungry for death by Aids to stop
Kampala :: Uganda | 5 days ago
Credibility HIV in many countries, death due to HIV and Aids-related illness in the world’s poorest countries remains unjustifiably high. A major contributing factor is that more than 800 million people are chronically undernourished globally, and the HIV epidemic...
Tags: food prices, prices rise, Uganda, Kampala, Health Medical Pharma, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Initialisms, Social Issues, AIDS, Immunodeficiency, HIV/AIDS in Africa, HIV
Do we have enough food?
Thimphu :: Bhutan | 9 days ago
Credibility This comes to 227,802 people out of the projected population of 683,407. They depend on imports for 34 percent of cereal needs, which include 51 percent of rice being imported from India. Among the reasons for food security challenges in Bhutan are rural...
Tags: food security, Bhutanese, India, climate change, urban migration, food production, food insecurity, paddy fields, food prices, Chencho Norbu, Bhutan, Thimphu, Environment, Food politics, Famine, Rice, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food, world food price crisis, Disaster Accident
UN chief urges unity over hunger
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for a "single global vision" from world leaders to address the problems of world hunger and pollution. Mr Ban's comments came at the start of a UN conference in Rome aimed at stabilising world food prices....
Tags: Food security, food prices, Malnutrition, Rome, Hunger, food production, G8, humanitarian, Food and Agriculture Organization, Pakistan, Food politics, Lahore, World Summit on Food Security, Jacques Diouf, Environment, Ban Ki-moon, David, Ban Ki, Pope Benedict XVI, BBC News, David Loyn, Silvio Berlusconi, developing countries, world food price crisis
'Recovery important than inflation'
New Delhi :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Economic recovery and job creation in India are more important than trying to tame inflation, as prices should ease because a drought is not as severe as first thought, a top policy adviser said on Monday. Annual June-September monsoon rains were 23 percent...
Tags: food prices, India, New Delhi
Food prices push Inflation up: at 0.37%!
New Delhi :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Food prices play dampener, inflation up at 0.37% Updated on Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:45 IST Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: An all round development in food prices reflected in the annual rate of inflation which shot to 0.37 percent for the week ended...
Tags: India, food prices, central bank, week ended, tighten money, money supply, New Delhi
Farmers not seeing profit in food prices
Edmonton :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Farmers in ventral Canada say despite rising food prices, they aren't seeing income gains. Agricultural groups in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba released a survey showing food prices rose 3.2 percent on an annual basis compared with...
Tags: food prices
'Too early to act on inflation'
Hyderabad :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will maintain a soft interest rate stance in the near term, even though poor rains could push up food-prices and fuel inflationary expectations. “The agriculture situation is disturbing and there would be pressure on food...
Tags: Reserve Bank of India, central banks, jubilee celebrations, panel discussion, food prices, RBI, platinum jubilee, reserve banks, Hindu
Food prices in developing countries remain very high, says UN
Mumbai :: India | 4 months ago
Credibility In several countries, prices exceed the already high levels of a year ago or are still at record levels, creating hardship for millions of people, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned in its latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation...
Tags: food prices
World hunger reaches the 1 billion people mark
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility One in six people in the world — or more than 1 billion — is now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a U.N. agency said Friday. Compared with last year, there are 100 million more people who...
Tags: United Nations, food prices, global economic, economic crisis, uns food, world hunger
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