High and volatile prices for key commodities, including food products, could spark unrest in poor countries, warned the heads of the WTO and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
LAST week, many leading figures in business, government and civil society gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. And Kraft Foods was there, listening and sharing what we have learnt, and urging action to tackle three of the greatest challenges facing the world today: food security, environmental degradation and economic development.
Global meet's call to reverse inefficient farming methods
HANOI: Urgent action is needed to reverse inefficient farming methods and boost the world's supply of rice to prevent rising poverty and hunger, experts told a major world rice congress on Tuesday.
A state government-run tea estate in Wayanad has registered record production by introducing free noon meal for its workers. The Priyadarsini Tea Estate has incorporated a tourism component to find resources to feed its 316 tribal workers, majority of them women.
The tea estate, spread over 955 acres, was conceived as a rehabilitation project for the tribals freed from bonded labour in 1984.
India has been ranked 67, much lower than neighbouring China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal in the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) Report released on Monday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a United States-based policy think tank.
While India has witnessed 23 per cent reduction in global hunger index (GHI) between 1990 and 2010, its performance is much below rival China whose score has fallen by a huge 48 per cent during the same period.
Worse, according to the new GHI released on Monday, India
THE high economic growth in India, unlike in the case of China, has not translated into a rapid reduction of hunger in India, a US-based policy think-tank has said.
India ranks 67th in an 84-country ranking and has more hungry people than its neighbouring countries.
