Korea – The global food crisis and climate change will be among the top issues on the agenda of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as he attends the Group of Eight (G8) Summit in Japan this week. “We must act, in Hokkaido ...
Updated 7th July 2008 at 10:30 AM by NewsTracker
While food prices have been stable or have fallen in relation to our incomes for much of the past thirty years, the past two years have indicated clearly that the era of cheap food is over. Rising food prices place a severe burden on the poor and government must intervene to support the needy in facing higher food prices. However, higher food prices also provide an opportunity to profit from producing more food for our people. In this article, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel looks ...
By Modern Bweema Sharm-El-Sheikh - The United Nations (UN) has warned that the current global food crisis, compounded by a hike in fuel prices and climate change, will push more than 100 million people into poverty. United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose-Migiro said on Monday at the official opening of the 11th AU Heads of State and Government Summit that this development risked reversing the positive steps made towards achieving the Millennium Development ...
By Shaun Benton Cape Town - Government is making biosafety a priority not only in terms of genetically-modified organisms in food but also in terms of food products entering the country's borders. Chantal Arendse of the Biosafety Directorate in the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday that while government was treading a fine line between those in favour and those opposed genetically modified organisms (GM organisms), strides were being made in biosafety. ...
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