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
China is a major contributor to the world food security by feeding nearly a quarter of the global population and involving in aid to other countries, said its Agriculture Minister here. "China has managed to feed 1.3 billion people, mostly relying on domestic production, which in itself is a major contribution to the world food security,' Sun Zhengcai told the summit on food. Mr. Sun said China was also committed to contributing to the development of the world food and agriculture.
Rome: Faced with an immediate hunger crisis and the need to double food production in the next 30 years, world leaders meeting on Tuesday to discuss soaring food prices were mostly in agreement on how the problem could be resolved. The questions were how to get there and who was going to pay for it. The steps needed? Immediately deliver more food aid to the world's hungry. Provide small farmers with seeds and fertilizer. Scrap export bans and restrictions. And vastly increase agriculture research and outreach programs to improve crop production.
Rome: World food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand, UN chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders on Tuesday at a summit grappling with hunger and civil unrest caused by food price hikes. The secretary-general told the Rome summit that nations must minimize export restrictions and import tariffs during the food price crisis and quickly resolve world trade talks. "The world needs to produce more food,' Ban said.
MNCs Dealing In Seeds, Foodgrains, Fertilizers Flourish
At FAO summit, Ban reminds world leaders of the severity and scale of crisis U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon mapped out a twin-track strategy to tackle soaring food prices as world leaders met for a three-day summit on Tuesday in a global response to the food crisis. "You all know about the severity and scale of the global food crisis. Before this emergency, more than 850 million people in the world were short of food,' said Mr. Ban at the summit, hosted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Rajasthan Government on Tuesday allocated 1,052.93 metric tonnes of wheat for each month up to September this year for providing food security to the poorest sections of society in the urban and rural areas of the State under the Annapoorna Yojana. Food and Civil Supplies Minister Ghanshyam Tiwari said here that the scheme would be operated as part of the targeted public distribution system to benefit about 1.05 lakh people across the State. The Food and Civil Supplies Department has instructed the District Supply Officers to disburse wheat to all beneficiaries strictly on schedule.
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday to make the
The FAO World Food Summit, which was addressed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday, is aimed at forging a common international response to the food crisis. The immediate goal of the June 3-5 Summit - which is being attended by more than 40 Heads of State - will be to secure a massive flow of assistance to the world's hungriest people and to ensure that subsistence farmers across the globe will have the seeds and fertilisers they need to plant their crops this season.
US poultry producers on Tuesday accused Europe of protectionism after efforts by Brussels to resolve the long-standing ban on US imports were rejected by food safety experts. An emphatic vote by veterinary experts in the standing committee on food chain and animal health
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stressed that in the prevailing competition between food and fuel, Sri Lanka was firm in the decision that no land that can be used for food will be used for bio-fuel whatever the commercial attraction may be. Addressing the FAO Conference on food security in Rome yesterday President Rajapaksa said it was the belief of Sri Lanka that food for the people should have the highest priority, and not the running of gas-guzzling vehicles.