The effects of climate change could lead to as much as a 5% drop in the GDP of countries in South Asia and Africa, including India, a World Bank report warned on Sunday. The report said the effects of a 2-degree Celsius rise in temperature due to global warming could put up to 400 million people at risk of hunger and leave up to 2 billion lacking enough water resources.
United Nations: With over 1 billion people going to bed hungry, the United Nations has warned that the hunger index is rising and appealed to governments and civil societies to
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.
Rich nations are diverting aid from other causes to pay to help poor countries fight the growing impact of climate change, according to this Oxfam report released on 16th Sept 09.
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.
Sept.09 : Finally there is acknowledgement on the part of the government that the country is indeed facing a serious drought and a crisis in food availability. For months we were treated to the Met department statements predicting some shortfall in the rainfall, nowhere close to the calamitous situation that those who work on the ground could see developing.
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Aug. 31: The month of August was a pervasive season of deaths across Bihar. As many as 164 officially counted deaths in this single month caused by floods, outbreak of diseases, starvation and a still continuing strike by government doctors seem to pale the memories of massacres in the 1990s often spurred by caste hatred in the state.
BHUBANESWAR: The inconsistent monsoon seems to have clouded the food security issue of the common man. The country is going to see a 10 million tonne fall in rice output this kharif season with Orissa being a significant contributor to reduced productivity.
Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: Sushanta Patronobish
The Hindu Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: Sushanta Patronobish
