Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday said food security is the foremost priority of the government and vowed that every effort would be made in this regard. The Prime Minister was talking to Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal Thursday, who briefed him about the food situation as well as progress on various initiatives taken for the welfare of the farmers.

Speakers at a function here have said that the country had been experiencing dismal climate change causing a grave concern to agriculture, food, human health, irrigation, navigation, soil, bio-diversity, environment, livelihood and water levels.

In the face of one of the most fundamental challenges - global warming - the government should adopt policy changes, take initiatives and prepare for effective representation at the Road to Copenhagen (COP 15).

Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday.

The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said, adding that it is facing a serious budget shortfall.

As Number Of Starving People Hits All-Time High, Food Aid Is At 20-Yr Low: UN

London: Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the UN relief agency said on Wednesday.

Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who died on Saturday in Texas aged 95, is widely credited with saving more than a billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world.

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