Full Coverage: Food

30.09.2005

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This issue of the Exchange magazine focuses on the issue of global poverty. It features articles on Ethiopia, Mozambique and Cambodia.

30.09.2005 Synthetic ingredients in "organic" food? It doesn't seem very logical, but if Kraft and other members of the corporate food industry get their way, the word "organic" is going to take on unfortunate new meaning, says the Pesticide Action Network.

29.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 29 (OneWorld) - The giant feed lots and factory farms that have brought us cheaper meat also are fanning the spread of bird flu and mad cow disease, says a new report from a prominent environmental think tank.

27.09.2005

Some 4,500 test varieties in a test field © WWF International

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22.09.2005 inadequate rainfall and a poor harvest mean that 34 per cent of Malawians - including 1 million children and pregnant women - will be unable to get enough to eat until the next harvest in March 2006.

21.09.2005 The Zimbabwean government has finally admitted that the country will run out of food by the end of this month. President Mugabe still refuses to make an urgent appeal to the international community, but it's probably too late to avert a human tragedy on a scale with Darfur anyway, says Zimbabwean writer Wilf Mbanga.

19.09.2005 A nutritional assessment conducted by Action Against Hunger in southern Sudan has found malnutrition "at or above the rates currently observed in Niger." The group is imploring the international community to focus resources on the nutritional crisis, which it says is being overlooked amidst the improving political situation.

19.09.2005 After almost three months, the hijackers of a World Food Program (WFP) ship carrying food aid off the coast of Somalia pledged to release the cargo after reaching agreement that the 850 tons of rice meant for tsunami survivors be distributed in the "neglected" central region.

14.09.2005 As the present shortage of refined oil shows, the days of cheap oil are probably over. Danielle Murray looks at how this will affect the food on your plate.

08.09.2005 Severe food shortages are beginning to hit southern Africa, with Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe worst affected.

06.09.2005 One of the richest states in India, Maharashtra faces ignomy for not doing enough for its tribals as they die due to hunger and malnutrition. Official statistics say that nearly 1,085 infants have died due to hunger and malnutrition in four months this year.

06.09.2005 One of the richest states in India, Maharashtra faces ignomy for not doing enough for its tribals as they die due to hunger and malnutrition. Official statistics say that nearly 1,085 infants have died due to hunger and malnutrition in four months this year.

02.09.2005 L’Afrique est au cœur des plans d’action des gouvernements, des organismes d’aide au développement et des bailleurs de fonds. Ce diaporama présente quelques-uns des défis auxquels le continent fait face et des progrès accomplis dans les dernières années.

02.09.2005 In a surprise move cash-strapped Zimbabwe has paid off a substantial part of its arrears to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but economists are raising questions over the government's capacity to import enough maize to feed up to 4 million people facing food shortages.