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  • May 2008

    • Asia Needs Funds to Battle Food Crisis

      Reuters  |  May 5, 08 4:40 PM CDT

      Asia Needs Funds to Battle Food Crisis

      (Newser) - Asia need funds fast to prevent billions of people from facing severe hunger, says the region's development bank. The bank today appealed for "money and ideas" to stave off poverty in the wake of rice and wheat prices doubling over the past year, reports Reuters. "The global fight against poverty will be won or lost in our region," said the bank's president. More »

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      World hunger

  • April 2008

    • Scientists Work on New 'Green Revolution'

      LiveScience  |  Apr 25, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Scientists Work on New 'Green Revolution'

      (Newser) - Food scientists are plotting a new "green revolution" to solve a growing food crisis, LiveScience reports. Facing what a World Food Program official called a “silent tsunami” of world hunger, researchers are working on a sequel to the first "green revolution" of the mid-20th century, whose innovations included the fertilizers, pesticides and better irrigation that helped increase crop yields. More »

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      food prices  • biofuel  • food riots  • famine  • World hunger  • Food and Agriculture Organization  • hunger alleviation  • hunger riots

    • UN Compares Food Crisis to 'Tsunami'

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 22, 08 12:41 PM CDT

      UN Compares Food Crisis to 'Tsunami'

      (Newser) - Rising food prices are creating a crisis every bit as deadly as the tsunami of 2004, and the situation requires a similar response, the UN says. Political and business leaders from around the world gathered today in London and heard the head of the World Food Program, Josette Sheeran, call for "large-scale, high-level action by the global community," the Telegraph reports. More »

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      Gordon Brown  • food prices  • biofuel  • World Food Program  • World hunger

  • February 2008

    • Climate Change May Trigger Crop Failures

      National Geographic  |  Feb 3, 08 9:21 AM CST

      Climate Change May Trigger Crop Failures

      (Newser) - Climate change could cause severe food shortages in South Asia and southern Africa, two of the poorest regions in the world, by 2030, National Geographic reports. "We were surprised by how much, and how soon, these regions could suffer if we don't adapt," said one of the study's authors. Decreased yields could pump up costs in the global food market as well. More »

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      climate change  • greenhouse gases  • farming  • hunger  • crops  • South Asia  • Southern Africa  • World hunger  • global food market

  • September 2007

    • Norway Builds Doomsday Vault for World Seeds

      Reuters  |  Sep 22, 07 12:28 PM CDT

      Norway Builds Doomsday Vault for World Seeds

      (Newser) - Norway has built a giant vault under an Arctic mountain, where it will preserve seeds from 21 of the world's essential crops in case disaster strikes. The so-called doomsday vault will eventually store 4.5 million seeds from crops such as wheat and rice to use in the wake of a global catastrophe, be it a typhoon or nuclear strike, Reuters reports. More »

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      Norway  • crops  • World hunger  • seeds  • seed vault

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