Full Coverage: Food

28.03.2005 The Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California raised over $5,000 to fight world hunger by holding a "Fast for Awareness." Find out how your school can get involved.

28.03.2005 Hormones in milk, food poisoning, mad cow disease, antibiotic resistant bacteria in meat – what’s happened to our food? "Sustainable Table" will help you understand the issues, offer suggestions on what you can do, direct you to more in-depth information, and introduce you to the exciting and hugely popular sustainable food movement exploding around the world.

25.03.2005 Hundreds of tons of genetically engineered corn untested for environmental or food safety was inadvertently sold by U.S.-based Syngenta over the past four years, the company admitted Thursday in the journal Nature, despite discovering the mistake several months ago. This "demonstrates once again that GE crops can't be controlled, even by the companies that develop them," said one anti-GE campaigner.

21.03.2005 World Vision together with World Food Programme and the government of Sri Lanka has signed a memorandum of understanding to implement an emergency school feeding programme in 171 schools in eight districts affected by the tsunami.

18.03.2005 President Robert Mugabe has secretly approached UN officials for help formulating a major appeal for food assistance to be launched as soon as the results of the March 31 election are declared. The president has, in the past, rebuffed international offers of assistance despite warnings that nearly half the population urgently require food aid or they could starve.

16.03.2005 Food and water shortages caused by four consecutive years of drought, aggravated by the indecision of the donor community, leaves the Eritrean people in a precarious condition. There are reports of malnutrition from all regions of the country.

16.03.2005 Les hypers contre la vie chère, nous répète-t-on depuis trente ans. Résultat : entre 1998 et 2004, les prix ont davantage augmenté dans les grandes surfaces que dans le commerce de détail.

16.03.2005 Consumers International has launched a new global call for action to control genetically modified (GM) food through labelling, safety testing, and protection of non-GM foods against contamination. In the UK, you can follow up a number of suggestions for writing to policymakers and raising awareness amongst the general public.

14.03.2005 Political leaders and antihunger institutions continue to offer piecemeal and oftentimes self-serving proposals for ending hunger. Such proposals won't end hunger--in fact, ending hunger isn't really what they are about. Instead, our growing reliance on food banks may distract us from finding lasting solutions to the hunger crisis.

12.03.2005 OTTAWA – Des agriculteurs, des scientifiques et des spécialistes des politiques de l’Afrique, de l’Asie, de l’Amérique latine et du Moyen-Orient profiteront d’une rencontre aujourd’hui avec des représentants du gouvernement du Canada à Ottawa pour demander au gouvernement de revoir son utilisation des récoltes génétiquement modifiées comme outil de développement durable.

08.03.2005 Jeudi le 17 mars au Santropol Roulant, 4050 rue St Urbain, à compter de 17h30.

Bien que la ville soit encore couverte de neige, ce n’est qu’une question de temps avant que votre jardin ne verdisse de nouveau. Nous vous invitons cordialement à participer à nos activités estivales : ateliers de travail, horaire d’implication et BBQ.

01.03.2005 Organizations of the civil society in Centralamerica are presenting today irrefutable proofs of the presence of StarLink –a genetically modified maize banned for human consumption in the US-, in food aid sent to Centralamerica.