World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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Food security in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region
The world has been experiencing a dramatic surge in the price of many staple foods since 2005. The prices of cereals and oil have almost doubled in just one year. Soaring food prices and market instability have led to a threat to food security. This is particularly true for the population of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region.
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SAARC nod for Food Bank
The 15th SAARC Summit has placed food security high on its agenda with the promise of more state intervention including a SAARC Food Bank to help any Member State in case of exigencies. Foreign Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohona addressing media at the conclusion of Standing Committee meetings said that all Member States had reached a consensus on the concept of a SAARC Food Bank. Dr. Kohona added that a preliminary draft as a proposal would be forwarded to the Foreign Minister's meeting for further perusal.
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South Asian leaders to issue separate statement on food security
The leaders of the South Asian countries are set to issue a separate statement on food security, apart from the SAARC declaration, focussing on activating the regional food bank with an initial outlay of 2.5 lakh tonnes and enhancing cooperation in agriculture for boosting production.
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Farmers rejoice talks failure
Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi July 31, 2008, 0:19 IST Indian farmers and food security activists are relieved over the inconclusive mini-ministerial meeting at Geneva, which had been convened to finalise the Doha Round of world trade talks.
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Cultivate sweet potato to ensure food security
Cultivation of sweet potato in the coastal char lands could help ensure food security, said the experts at a seminar on Monday. They said char lands, which run risks of natural calamities like cyclone and tidal surge, are suitable and cost-effective for growing nutritious potato during the dry season. The international seminar was organised jointly by Brac and the Centre for International Potato (CIP) at Brac Centre Inn in the capital.
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SAARC food bank to be activated after summit
The South Asian nations are set to activate the SAARC food bank immediately after the summit meeting to help the member-countries tackle exigent situations after the foreign secretaries reached a consensus on the first day of their two-day meeting here on Tuesday. They agreed to help each other for increasing agricultural production by providing each other technological support as well as making the distribution mechanisms of food-grains more effective.
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SAARC focus on food, terrorism
B. Muralidhar Reddy COLOMBO: The 15th SAARC Summit, scheduled for August 2 and 3, would come out with a declaration on "food security' and deliberate on the "collective action on modalities of dealing with menace of terrorism.' The Standing Committee of the summit, comprising Foreign Secretaries of the eight Member-States, on the opening day of its two-day meeting on Tuesday agreed on the need for separate declaration on food security in the context of rising food costs and shortages experienced by the region.
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Food for thought
KOLKATA, July 27: Amidst widespread fears that food security in the state would come under threat owing to the LF government's industrialisation policy, a report prepared by the state land and land reforms department reveals that in fact only 9,000 acres of farm land in the state has been converted for setting up of industries over the last two years. Of far more concern, in the context of food security, is the fact that some 15 lakh acres of farm land remain uncultivated in the state every year mainly due to the financial constraints of marginal farmers and bargadars, as per the report.
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$170m ADB support for food security
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$170 million loan to Bangladesh to cope with the rising food price, a bank release said yesterday. The loan is a part of a broader food security package being extended by international agencies and also initiated by the Government of Bangladesh totalling a monetary value of US$1.29 billion. The emergency assistance for food security project, which is supported by ADB and other multilateral agencies, will ensure access to food supply for those hardest hit by recent natural disasters in Bangladesh and the rapid increase in food prices.
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U.N. Secretary-General warns of "double jeopardy' of high food and fuel prices
V. Jayanth Calls for global partnership to save the poor; "Act immediately to boost agricultural output' CHENNAI: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the "double jeopardy' of high food and fuel prices threatened to undermine much of the progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Critical challenges