Full Coverage: Food

28.02.2006 On-the-spot reports on Kenya's drought by members of AMREF's communications team, Arik Karani and Christine Misiko.

28.02.2006 KABUL – The United Nations World Food Programme today called on donors urgently to provide funds to its Afghanistan operation, which is facing critical shortages in supplying food to 3.5 million vulnerable Afghans.

27.02.2006 Small-scale poultry farming and wild birds are being blamed for the bird flu crisis when the real culprit is the transnational poultry industry, according to a report out today.

23.02.2006 Firm commitments from rich countries to fund the response to the food crisis in East Africa are not being made quickly enough, a leading international aid agency said today.

23.02.2006 Posters, fact-sheets, teacher's guides, and children's books are just some of the latest weapons in the war against bird flu.

22.02.2006 My friend and I, both grandmothers, have the dubious distinction of being the only ones in the United States who were arrested for taking part in the Pure Foods National Super Market Campaign to Label Foods Containing GMOs...

22.02.2006 The periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean known as El Niño threatens food supplies for millions of Africans by reducing crops yields, say researchers.

15.02.2006 The Cabinet today recommended to the President for the Maldives to become party to the International Treaty on Plant and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The decision was taken at todayÂ’s meeting of the Cabinet after members had deliberated on a paper presented by the Ministry of Fisheries, Agriculture and Marine Resources.

09.02.2006 In many countries where bird flu is threatening flocks, poultry is the main source of food and income so educating the populations about the dangers of the disease and how it is spread is vital to prevention efforts. Communication campaigns that target those who are most at-risk are empowering farmers in Southeast Asia thanks to the Academy for Educational Development.

08.02.2006 The food crisis in Kenya is causing not only widespread starvation and malnutrition, but also large-scale communal violence in the region. The UN and other aid agencies are devising a statement, to be released Wednesday, that will encourage increased aid to the region to help bring food to the area and halt fighting before it becomes too severe to be stopped.

06.02.2006 Kenya's escalating food crisis is threatening to plunge the affected region into a level of conflict that it has not been seen for almost a decade as nomadic cattle herders fight over resources, a leading development agency said today.

03.02.2006 Thursday,Feb 2:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act near Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. Launching the massive programme, Dr. Singh described the event as "a landmark in our history in removing poverty from the face of the nation."

03.02.2006 Following the success of their fair trade trick-or-treat candy in October, Global Exchange is once again offering an affordable fair trade alternative for holiday candy buyers. This one even comes with an eco-friendly gift tag, biodegradable packaging, and an "I love Fair Trade" iron-on.