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
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
Rs.112.50 crore for programme as special sanction This is in addition to Rs.1,119 crore for farm activities
The National Fruit-bearing Tree Plantation Fortnight-2008 begins today across the country. This year's theme for the day is "Plant more fruit-bearing saplings, have improved health, nutrition and money." President Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed have issued separate messages on the occasion. In his message, Iajuddin stressed the need for ensuring nutrition apart from achieving food security to protect people's health.
The world food summit in Rome failed to even recognise the basic problem, let alone remedy it. (Editorial)
David Streitfeld and Keith Bradsher In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of per
Agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar has said the restrictions imposed on export of major foodgrain are not permanent and the government could lift the ban once the supply situation improves. "I am confident that prices will go down and in such a situation we don't want to continue with these types of restrictions," Pawar said when asked about the demand being raised by world leaders on lifting export ban.
On 5 June humankind celebrated World Environment Day. But underlining the merrymaking were issues of grave environmental concern. Which are going to challenge our future, specially food shortage, poverty and environment degradation.
Food is the first among the hierarchical needs of a human being and this is likely to be the worst sufferer under conditions of global warming and sea level rise Prof M.S. Swaminathan
Pledges of almost three billion dollars of emergency aid were made at a food price crisis summit on Wednesday but UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that up to 20 billion dollars a year would be needed to avoid disaster. "We simply cannot afford to fail," the UN Secretary-General said at the food security summit. "Hundreds of millions of people expect no less," he added.
India today expressed concern on the diversion of foodgrains to bio-fuel production. At an international forum it firmly rejected the West's point of view that higher consumption in emerging economies was the reason behind the rising global food prices in the world.
U.N. officials announced almost $3 billion of emergency aid to help ease the global food crisis on Wednesday, but U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned up to $20 billion a year would be needed. "We simply cannot afford to fail," said Mr.-1 Ban at the food security summit in Rome, which is grappling with how to stop the crisis escalating. "Hundreds of millions of people expect no less."