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
Twenty-two mainly African countries are "especially vulnerable' to soaring food and fuel prices, according to a report by the UN food agency ahead of a summit on food security next week in Rome. "Large increases in food and fuel prices threaten macroeconomic stability and overall growth, especially of low-income, net-importing countries,' the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) notes in the report published on Wednesday.
The post harvest wastage in India for instance, is estimated to be as high as 26 per cent. This figure is just two per cent in the developed countries OUR POLYMERS BUREAU
The country's agriculture sector, which accounts for nearly 17% of the GDP, grew by a healthy 3.5% in 2007-08 than the initially estimated 2.6%. "The final estimates in agriculture are much higher...it could be 3.5% in the revised estimates', statistics and programme implementation secretary Pronab Sen said on Thursday, a day ahead of release of GDP growth figures for FY'08. The higher output in agriculture may push up economic growth rate closer to 9%.
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A second green revolution must be undertaken to enhance agriculture productivity, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has said.
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Experts in the food sector now assert that the present high food prices regime in the national and world markets shall be used to the advantage of food producers. However, they cautioned that this needs a lot of packaging.
After making clear that India will not tolerate any misadventure at her borders President Pratibha Patil today stressed upon the need of starting another green revolution in the country in the backdrop of the increasing gap between the demand and supply of foodgrains. Addressing the second convocation of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu, the President recalled India's first green revolution in 1960, when the country's import had reached to an alarming proportion.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday said Christians must help to ease the global food crisis which has seen soaring prices increase hunger in many poor countries. "Those who nourish themselves with the bread of Christ cannot remain indifferent in the face of those who, even in our days, lack daily bread," the pontiff said. Catholics believe that they receive the body and blood of Christ when taking the Eucharist bread and wine.
The present food crisis is due to lack of proper distribution and the trading system impeding free flow of food, according to the vice chairman of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Victor Fung.