Full Coverage: Food

30.11.2007

30.11.2007 Small salt producers in the Indian western state of Rajasthan are partnering NGOs and the government in the campaign against iodine deficiency disorders. According to the WFP, Nawa now produces iodised salt as per the national standard.

30.11.2007 The World Food Programme invites the online community to raise awareness on global hunger by participating in an international short video contest. The five most compelling clips, between 30-60 seconds in length, will be webcast through YouTube.

29.11.2007 A report by the United Nations World Food Programme, released ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, highlights links between hunger, poor health and HIV/AIDS. Life-saving drugs are more effective when people are well nourished and healthy, the report says.

12.11.2007 Food and Agricultural Organization’s latest prediction of high global prices of cereals in the coming year has led to debates on future prices of agricultural commodities in both rich and poor trading countries. With growing demand for food, feed and industrial use – many countries will pay more for importing cereals than they did before, even though they are expected to import less, the report says.

12.11.2007 FreeRice, an innovative internet-based vocabulary game is helping mobilise millions of people in the fight against global hunger. For every correct answer, the site donates ten grains of rice to the World Food Programme. One billion grains of rice have been donated in the last one month – enough to feed more than 50,000 people for one day.

11.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 11 (OneWorld) - Major U.S. companies are adding to the impending threat of global warming as they drive the production of palm oil in Indonesia's tropical forests, says a new study by an international environmental organization.

08.11.2007 The UN and World Food Programme (WFP) have warned of humanitarian crises in central-west, central and northeastern Afghanistan if food does not reach people before winter. About 400,000 people are in urgent need of food aid before heavy snow blocks up the mountainous regions.

07.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A long-held basic human right, the right to adequate food for the world's 854 million hungry people, is being threatened once again -- this time by the conversion of wheat, sugar, palm oil and maize into agricultural fuel.

06.11.2007 The Musahar community, one of the most disadvantaged sub caste within Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, India, have seen abject poverty for generations. Action Aid is now helping the community discover the power of collective action by spreading awareness and making use of an innovative communal grain bank.