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The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it...
Greenpeace activists paint "G8 FAILED" on the side of the coal-carrying ship South African ship, Gallia Graeca, in Civitavecchia, near Rome July 10, 2009. Further south, activists paint the message "stupid" to G8 leaders on the...
World War III? By Thomas P.M. Barnett A year ago, as the global financial panic was spreading, experts assaulted the average American — then alternatively known as Joe Six Pack or some sort of plumber — with all manner of...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has called on political forces to unite to meet commitments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "The president is calling on all political forces to unite to completely fulfil...
The issue of food security is now at the center of the global community’s development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. A one-day forum in Washington, “The New Angola: Forging a...
LAGOS, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua called on the G8 countries to act rather than make promises on hunger to save the worsening situation in less developed nations, local press reported on Thursday. In...
Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade “THE world’s attention is back on your cause.” That was Bill Gates talking to agricultural scientists gathered recently to honour the late...
The UN World Food Summit threw away a great chance to stop more than one billion people going hungry. But the World Food Summit failed to make any major breakthroughs. Warm words don’t fill empty stomachs,” said Adriano...
The G-20's new-found importance should be used to challenge North Atlantic hegemony, says Nitin Desai. A new global oligarchy is coming into being and India [ Images ] is a part of this charmed circle. Global governance tracts...
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday the government will hold a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven industrial countries in Iqaluit close to the Arctic Circle on Feb....
