Results for food crisis: 46

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 7 - Moves by the United States to provide more cash instead of commodities to fight a growing world food crisis are welcomed, but more is needed, a U.N. World Food...

GENEVA, March 9 - Commodity price declines are hampering farming investments and this could worsen the world food crisis, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human...

WASHINGTON, March 3 - The global economic downturn has compounded the food crisis, pushing more people over the brink of hunger and threatening stability around the world, the head of the United Nations' food relief...

CANBERRA, March 3 - Growing suspicion of free trade and fears about high-tech new crops are threatening to prolong a food crisis threatening millions of the world's poor, Australia's Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said on...

* Conditions still in place for fresh food crisis * Developing countries unable to boost food output ROME, Nov 9 - Poor nations battered by record food prices last year need international help to raise...

* Structural causes of food crisis still exist * New crunch could occur as early 2010 * Higher oil prices factor for cost of food BRUSSELS, June 11 - A failure to tackle the causes...

With capital markets across the world reeling and massive layoffs capturing the headlines, there's a worrying lack of attention to a looming food crisis and the growing number of the world's poor who are unable...

While attention is distracted by the international financial crisis and the drop in grain prices has taken the urgency off of dealing with soaring food prices, a new, more severe, food crisis is looming, according...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 7 - Developing countries must embrace new technologies for agriculture in order to address a growing global food crisis, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday. Improved seeds for crops...

WASHINGTON, March 10 - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he had discussed with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the "potential threat" to food supplies if the global economic crisis worsens. Obama has spent the...