Full Coverage: Food

31.10.2005 Starting today, the fast food giant will sell Fair Trade Certified coffee in 658 stores throughout the northeast United States, supporting a living wage for global coffee producers.

28.10.2005 In a radio and TV appeal for help, MalawiÂ’s President Binguwa Mutharika said the country was facing a national disaster from the worsening food crisis.

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26.10.2005 African governments and donors have launched an ambitious plan to fight desertification, which causes chronic food shortages and threatens to drive millions from their homes in coming decades.

24.10.2005 Indian NGO Charkha Development Communication Network has planned a relief programme for 137 worst-affected families in five villages - Dargad, Kamhama, Makama, Palpura and Badran - in the north Indian state of Kashmir. The survivors have lost all their possessions and have nothing to fall back on and the situation is likely to get worse as it has begun snowing in the upper reaches of the region.

21.10.2005 The food shortage in Malawi has worsened, with an estimated 4.6 million people in need of emergency food support and the situation expected to become more acute from December to March.

20.10.2005 The number of chronically hungry people in the world is on the rise again after decades of progress. The World Food Programme (WFP) says that developed countries continue to spend more money on subsidising farmers than they do to help starving children.

19.10.2005 OneWorld South Asia along with the MSSRF has successfully broadcast a live programme through Indian broadcaster All India Radio. The half-hour programme, on child welfare and nutrition, had experts from hospitals and NGOs working in the field. The live programme was broadcast under OneWorld South Asia's Open Knowledge Network (OKN) programme.

17.10.2005 The Centre for Interethnic Tolerance and Refugees (CMTB), announced the start of the campaign to provide assistance to the vulnerable social groups, both in Macedonia and abroad.

17.10.2005 A three-pronged strategy is needed — sustaining the gains already achieved, extending them to rainfed areas, and ensuring new gains through diversification and value addition.

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10.10.2005 As a result of two decades of decreasing economic activities, Cameroon is now in a serious financial crisis that is threatening the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, reports IPS.

07.10.2005 Malawi's political crisis has distracted government and caused parliament to lose focus amid a hunger crisis threatening more than four million people, and could also jeopardise foreign aid, warns the British High Commissioner.

06.10.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 6 (One World) - Extreme hunger and malnutrition could take the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in southern Sudan if the world fails to take immediate action, humanitarian aid activists are warning.

05.10.2005 The latest book by William F. Engdahl Seeds of Destruction: The Geopolitics of Genetically Modified Food and the Global Empire, was promoted before about 400 invitees, On October 4, at the Sheraton Hotel in Zagreb.

04.10.2005 Chronic poverty and the catastrophic effects of HIV and AIDS are having as much impact on the worsening food crisis across southern Africa as erratic rainfall, says Care International.