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  • Millions facing drought and famine throughout Africa (WSWS)
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    WSWS
    By Barry Mason
    Reports from aid agencies show that many areas in Africa are currently facing drought and threat of famine. In East Africa some 11 million people are suffering a drought that is the worst in a decade and will mean that food aid is urgently needed over the next six months. The countries affected stretch from the Horn of Africa through to Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.
    The January bulletin produced by the USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS) warned of a (…)

  • World food price crisis - US, UK, EU, Oz Biofuel- & CO2-driven Food Genocide
    3 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A global food price crisis, a global food crisis, now threatens billions of people in the Developng World with famine and starvation.
    This catastrophe is being driven by the greed of Western countries for the profits from biofuel and carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution .
    The resource-greedy, racist and genocidal UK, EU, Australia (Oz) and US are threatening much of the world with Climate Genocide and with Food Genocide.
    In British-ruled India during the Second World War about 6-7 million (…)

  • The Future of Food : What Every Person Should Know (video, 56")
    10 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Future of Food: What Every Person Should Know with Deborah Garcia
    The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover
    57 mn 46 s - 21 nov. 2006
    www.mslaw.edu
    What should every person know about the food they ingest. The documentary "The Future of Food" changed the way we think about food(and continues to do so) by answering this very question.
    But, just how has food actually changed? Do we need to worry about genetically modified foods? What about artificial foods? Learn all this more (…)

  • What do we eat?
    21 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 :
    United States: The Revis family of North Carolina (Sure hope most American families eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less junk food than this family.) Food expenditure for one week $341.98 :
    Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11 :
    Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or (…)

  • Agribusiness Giants seeks Control over our Food Supply
    10 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    GlobalResearch
    Review of F. William Engdahl’s "Seeds of Destruction"
    by Stephen Lendman
    Part II
    William Engdahl’s book is a diabolical account of how four Anglo-American agribusiness giants plan world domination by patenting life forms to gain worldwide control of our food supply and our lives. This review is in three in-depth parts. Part I was published and is available on this web site. Part II follows below.
    Washington Launches the GMO Revolution
    The roots of the story go back (…)

  • Alert Over The March of The ‘Grey Goo’ in Nanotechnology Frankenfoods
    4 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A breed of Frankenfood is being introduced into human diet and cosmetics with potentially disastrous consequences, experts said last night.Academics, consumer groups and Government officials are warning that the arrival of nanotechnology threatens dangerous changes to the body and the environment.
    The particles it uses are so small - 80,000 times thinner than a human hair - that they can pass through membranes protecting the brain or babies in the womb.
    Nano health supplements, such as (…)

  • Global food supply is dwindling rapidly, UN agency warns
    20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BLACKLISTSNEWS, December 17, 2007. Reprint from International Herald Tribune
    ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
    The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
    The (…)

  • Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
    Soaring crop prices and demand for biofuels raise fears of political instability John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian Saturday November 3 2007
    Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to (…)

  • Western consumption may cause famines
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western consumption may cause famines By Anita Purcell-Sjoelund in Sweden
    July 01, 2007 11:06pm
    FOOD production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, a research group has warned.
    The livelihoods of more than three billion people in the world are being undermined by the wealth of the privileged few, said the director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Johan Rockstroem.
    "The risk is that we might halve... (…)

  • CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food (IPS)
    15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:09 GMT
    CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food
    Patricia Grogg
    HAVANA, Mar 6 (IPS) - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning to move forward together on biofuels production, but they will rely on producing alcohol from sugarcane, in order to spare food crops. Official Cuban sources described the cooperative alcohol programme between the two countries as part of their "joint efforts" to protect the (…)