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MUCH has been said about how BHP Billiton’s bid for Potash Corporation and Canadian fertiliser company Agrium’s play for AWB fit in with the growing issue of food security and food shortages.
These are just new chapters in developments that resulted in China’s Bright Food Group trying to acquire Australia’s CSR [...]
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The flooding of Pakistan, affecting 20 million people, is linked to climate change and a sign of more calamities to come.
FOR those who still doubt that climate change is a real problem, the plight of Pakistan today should serve as a lesson. The floods there have been simply devastating.
Up to 20 million [...]
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Persistent drought, cold weather and flooding, all attributed to climate change, are threatening Bolivia with a food crisis, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and experts have recently warned.
FAO coordinator Einstein Tejada said one fifth of Bolivia’s territory now suffer from the effects of climate change, causing food prices [...]
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The Indonesian Sugar and Flour Traders Association (Apegti) predicts that the country’s flour price may rise 20 percent starting from October due to increased world wheat prices stemming from decreased global production.
The price of wheat in several stock exchanges rose after the government of Russia announced that the country would [...]
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Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has announced a Russian export freeze on grain. Photograph: Ria Novosti/Reuters
British supermarket shoppers and the governments of poor countries are set to feel the impact of a commodities panic that in the past week has seen wheat record its highest monthly increase for 37 years.
Global prices for the [...]
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Russia’s decision to ban grain exports is fueling anxiety among Egyptians that an international wheat crisis could lead to massive food shortages in the Arab world’s most populous country.
Egypt is the world’s top wheat importer, annually buying 6 million to 7 million tons from the international market. About 50% of that comes [...]
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A man hands over his daughter to a naval rescue boat as he wades through floodwaters in Sukkur in Pakistan’s Sindh province August 8, 2010. Pakistani navy boats travelled through miles of flood waters on Sunday to rescue people stranded in a disaster that has angered many over the government’s response.
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Local and international relief workers say continued heavy rainfall has worsened the situation in Pakistan where raging floodwaters have killed more than 1,600 people and affected 15 million in the past two weeks. The United Nations says Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its worst floods in history.
In [...]
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By Terna Doki Correspondent, Makurdi
As fertilizer crisis continues to hit farmers in Benue State, Fertiliser Steering Committee has admitted that 39 wards are yet to get their supply of the commodity.
In a statement in Makurdi, Commissioner for Information and Culture, Mrs. Diana Ochoga (member of the committee), claimed that the [...]
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NOWSHERA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistanis scoured towns for food on Wednesday, with some areas facing life-threatening shortages after floods which have killed 1,400 people and highlighted the fragile leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari.
Ethnic violence raging in Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi is also piling pressure on the government, widely criticized for [...]
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