Workshop Spotlights Spiralling Food Price

                   
allafrica.com     May 20, 2008            

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would... [read full story]                    

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Uganda: Subsidies to Farmers Can Boost Food Production

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Ndinawe Byekwaso Kampala IT should not come as a surprise that there are rising food prices in Uganda because agriculture has declined by about 50% since the 80s, according to the United Nations Development Programme report of 2007. In Uganda, there has been an...                    

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Uganda: How We Can Resolve Surging Food Prices

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Juliet Mabisi Kampala GLOBAL prices of basic foodstuffs are sharply increasing. The price of wheat has doubled in less than a year, while other staple foods such as corn, maize and soya are trading above their 1990 averages. Rice and coffee prices are running at...                    

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South Africa: Workshop Spotlights Spiralling Food Price

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would...                    

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South Africa: Urgent Intervention Needed to Address Food Prices

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Edwin Tshivhidzo Pretoria High food prices and conflicts need to be addressed as a matter of urgency, according to the African Union New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) workshop currently underway in Pretoria. Delegates at the workshop called on...                    

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Urgent Intervention Needed to Address Food Prices

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Edwin Tshivhidzo Pretoria High food prices and conflicts need to be addressed as a matter of urgency, according to the African Union New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) workshop currently underway in Pretoria. Delegates at the workshop called on...                    

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Change of Focus Needed in Food Production

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

James Shikwati Skyrocketing food prices are pushing people from poverty to desperation and hunger and may lead to annihilation of populations in Africa. Of the 36 "crisis" countries named by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 21 are from Africa. Over 75 per cent of Africa's 980 million...                    

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Kenya: Change of Focus Needed in Food Production

allafrica.com     May 20, 2008          

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 James Shikwati Skyrocketing food prices are pushing people from poverty to desperation and hunger and may lead to annihilation of populations in Africa. Of the 36 "crisis" countries named by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 21 are from Africa. Over 75 per...                    

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The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

mathaba.net     May 21, 2008          

We have millions of farmers who grow our food, and there are six billion of us consuming it. But between the farmers and us is just a handful of corporations, and they control the world market in whatever food you care to think of. by Raj Patel Final Call (New American Media) Author Raj Patel...                    

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Behind Latin America's Food Crisis

worldpress.org     May 21, 2008          

Laura Carlsen Americas Program Center for International Policy In January of 2007 tens of thousands of Mexicans marched in the streets to protest a leap of 50 percent in the price of corn tortillas. What happened in Mexico, and continues to happen, was caused by the confluence of several factors:...                    

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Pakistan and global food prices

independent-bangladesh.com     May 21, 2008          

By Shahid KardarTHE Sensitive Price Index has now crossed the frightening rate of 20 per cent (the latest being 24 per cent), largely on account of the recent revisions in the domestic prices of petroleum products and food inflation. Excessive liquidity in the banking sector owing to robust...                    

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