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Junk food aimed at kids 'not fit for animals'
Dublin :: Ireland | 7 days ago
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Prof Ivan Perry of UCC warned that obesity presents societal challenges akin to global warming and said it would be naive to assume that the issue could be resolved through tackling individual behaviour alone. In a lecture “Obesity: A Modern Plague” at...
Tags: Prof Perry, Ivan Perry, food production, Ireland, Dublin, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Soft drink, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Childhood obesity, Epidemiology of obesity, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Do we have enough food?
Thimphu :: Bhutan | 11 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
South Sudan seeks alternatives to reduce food prices
Malakāl :: Sudan | 11 days ago
Credibility The government of Southern Sudan on Thursday said seeking alternatives to reducing soaring food prices in the region. Foods prices in Southern Sudan are increasing indefinitely in the region with local officials attributing this increase to too much dependency...
Tags: Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly, South Sudan, food price, Ugandan, seeking alternatives, food production, Sudan, Malakāl, Environment, Secession, Irregular military, Famine, Equatoria, Politics, Politics of Sudan, Southern Sudan, world food price crisis
Is Monsanto the answer or the problem?
Mexico :: NY :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work increasing food production in starving areas of the globe, welcomed Fraley to his Dallas home, where the two men sipped coffee and tea and discussed a subject dear to their hearts: the future...
Tags: Africa Monsanto, Monsanto Co, Rob Fraley, biotech crop, Norman Borlaug, green revolution, food production, tolerant corn, research centers, executive director, Mexico, Greater St. Louis, Monsanto, Herbicides, Roundup, Genetically modified food, Droughts, Environmental issues, Genetic engineering, Business Finance, Environment
Worldwide Corporate Control of Agriculture
Geneva :: NY :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Amin Abaza, Egypt's Minister of Agriculture, explaining Egyptian farmland acquisitions in other African nations, on World Food Day 2009 Take one example. In August 2009, the government of Mauritius, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, got a long-term...
Tags: land grabbing, African, Philippines, financial crisis, Brazilian, food crisis, Mauritius, food production, South Korea, Geneva
India: Civil Society Demands Food Security To All
Jaipur :: India | 22 days ago
Credibility The Job card holders rather decide to migrate to other states, such as Punjab or Gujarat to seek longer employment with better payment...Under the Public Food Distribution System (PDS), the wheat is distributed to the BPL families raging from 10 kilograms...
Tags: NREGA, c. Raise PDS, food grains, food entitlements, entitlements act, civil society, vulnerable groups, job cards, food production, India, Jaipur, Famine, Population, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Food security, Malnutrition, Disaster Accident, Poverty, Humanitarian aid, Food politics, Social Issues
Why another World Food Summit He Changchui
Rome :: NY :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility Dr He Changchui is assistant director-general and regional representative for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Never in the history of mankind have so many people been so hungry.
Tags: South East Asia, climate change, Asian, development countries, ODA, Rome, food production
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
UN hunger summit vows urgent action
Rome :: Italy | 23 days ago
Credibility A United Nations summit on food security vowed in a final declaration on Monday to take "urgent action" to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people around the world. Hunger is "an unacceptable blight on the lives, livelihoods and dignity...
Tags: hunger, developing countries, Pope Benedict XVI, food production, malnutrition, Ban Ki-moon, U.N., ban ki, final declaration, urgent action, Italy, Rome, Diplomatic conferences, Food security, Robert Mugabe, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Politics, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food politics, International organizations, Environment, United Nations, Poverty, Food, Religion Belief, World Summit on Food Security, Humanitarian aid, Political systems, Feed The Hungry, Social Issues, G8
Welcome to the Clone Farm (Reuters)
Enid :: OK :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch...Of the 400-some cattle in Barry Pollard's herd of mostly Black Angus cattle there are 22 clones, genetic copies of some of the most productive livestock the world has ever known.
Tags: Mark Walton, Pollard Farms, ViaGen, Barry Pollard, clone animal, animal clone, animal agriculture, breed technology, food production, Enid, Biotechnology, Developmental biology, Dolly, Somatic cell nuclear transfer, Molecular cloning, Cloning, Genetics, Molecular biology
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