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UN Program to Help Hunger Hot Spots

— A U.N. agency rolled out a $214 million program Tuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for food and oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid groups to provide enough food for the world's hungry....

WFP announces $200 million package to help hunger hotspots

The World Food Programme Tuesday announced a $214-million package aimed at 16 hunger hotspots in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. WFP says the funds will be used to provide life-saving food rations to the most vulnerable,...

New book about Rev. Moon’s power in Washington

A new book has been released about the business, religious, media and political empire constructed by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, designated "messiah" and leader of the Unification Church. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created...

World Food Programme head says biofuels affecting food supply

Published: Fri 07 March 2008 UN World Food Programme (EFP) head Josette Sheeran has warned that European Union countries needed to look more carefully at the effect that biofuels were having on food prices. Sheeran warned the...

Food aid concern mounts after trade talks collapse

A prominent US strategic think tank is calling on the Bush administration to double the emergency food aid it provides to developing countries. It's an opinion echoed by many food producers in the United States, such as Bev...

DEVELOPMENT: Think Tank Urges Major Changes in U.S. Food Aid

WASHINGTON, Jul 29 (IPS) - The United States should urgently implement major changes in its emergency food aid and overseas trade and development policies to deal with the record rise in global grain prices that is threatening...

Plan on the cards to address food crisis

As the food crisis continues to threaten many countries around the world, the United States (US) Congress, the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) and several Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) are putting together...

Indefensible Biofuels

By William Yeatman & Marlo Lewis Advocates claim that ethanol mandates and subsidies protect our planet, enhance U.S. security, and ease our pain at the pump. Moonshine is in your gas tank because the corn and ethanol lobbies...

Global Food Supply Dwindling as Prices Skyrocket, Warns UN

The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf, has warned that the world's supply of food is shrinking, creating "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food."Prices of...

Sunflower Seeds Top List of Most Expensive Food

Joshua Zumbrun, Forbes.com In the chair's summary of the last G8 conference in Heiligendamm, Germany, there was no mention of food prices or agriculture. Since the G8 last assembled in June 2007, food prices have reached...