Here are the stark numbers today:
Global food prices force about 100 million people into hunger.
High food prices are pushing 30 million Africans into poverty.
About 850 million people are suffering from chronic hunger worldwide.
Food prices have hit the highest levels in real terms in 30 years.
Price of rice has gone up by 75% globally.
Global food prices [...]
Continue reading about Stark Numbers: Food Solutions, not Promises
In today’s world, where so many wake up in poverty and go to sleep hungry, each of us should ask: “how can I change this?” It is a sin to waste food while others do not have enough to eat. Every year the food waste in America alone can feed over 50 million people per [...]
“This is a fight we cannot afford to lose, the enemy is hunger”, so said Ban Ki Moon yesterday in Rome. However his words fell on deaf ears. So far only a measly 3 billions has been “promised” to feed the 900 million who are on the verge of starvation. Yesterday I reported that a [...]
The primaries are over! Now is the time to solve the real problems as world leaders gather in Rome for the second day of talks on food price escalation and, with luck, to settle on a common strategy to deal with the crisis, the FAO has put a price on eradicating hunger: $30bn. Yep! That’s [...]
Continue reading about The Hungry Look Towards Rome for Answers
My email box this morning bristled with an inordinate amount of messages from various food agencies but the one that I opened up straight away came from the FAO, with a link to their latest pdf prepared & published for next week’s high level conference on world food security in Rome. Speculators outside of the [...]
On the Project Concern site, there’s this message: Here is a challenge to consider: tonight – for just one night – go without dinner; go to bed hungry. This act of conviction serves to remind each of us of the global emergency that is currently being described by the World Food Program as the “silent [...]
Continue reading about A Ray of Hope: G8 to Start Tackling Global Food Crisis
The answer is no. Since 1950, the earth’s population has risen by more than four billion people, to 6.6 billion and UN projections put world population at 9.2 billion by 2050. The world currently faces a food crisis before the full impact of climate change and a 42% rise in population. The Malthusian vision may [...]
Continue reading about 9.2 billion by 2050. Will We Have Enough Food & Water?
The problem of water scarcity is a growing worldwide phenomenon. Net renewable water resources per capita have declined dramatically over a single generation, and in little less than 20 years from now will reach dangerously low levels. Water scarcity already affects every single continent and four of every ten people in the world. The situation [...]
Continue reading about Precious Water: Mixed News Roundup on Earth Day
It took more than 400 scientists and three years of haggling, wrangling and heated arguments to come up with the report by the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) as dire warnings from the World Bank, the IMF and the UN’s World Food Programme splashed the front pages of the world [...]
Continue reading about Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Reform
With food riots about to topple the Haitian government, from Mexico to Pakistan, Egypt to Cameroon, protests have turned violent. Rioters tore through three cities in the West African nation of Burkina Faso a few weeks ago, burning government buildings and looting stores. Similar protests exploded in Senegal and Mauritania late last year. And Indian [...]