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Wednesday 10 February 2010

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In-Depth: Food Crisis: Status and Impacts

Global food crisis focus in Madrid

- Food aid must change to suit children
- Talks and more talks about food
- Calls to reform Food Aid Convention
- Splitting the food bill in Madrid

Asia Features

AFGHANISTAN: Drop in fuel, food prices raises hope for food insecure

LAOS: Breeding livestock to nurture livelihoods

NEPAL: Building a food bridge to survive the lean times

AFGHANISTAN: Urgent need to pre-position food aid

Middle East Features

SYRIA: Rice import snag leaves some Iraqi refugees short

SYRIA: Bread subsidies under threat as drought hits wheat production

ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza fuel, cooking gas shortages beginning to bite

YEMEN: Soaring food prices force more people below poverty line - WFP

Africa Features

AFRICA: Tractored out by “land grabs”?

GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide

NIGERIA: Food stocks low, prices high, despite good harvest

WEST AFRICA: Do high food prices warrant a cash response?

CAMEROON: Life in Douala, one of the world’s most expensive cities

Food Crisis Q & A

Why everything costs more

Hear our Voices

KENYA: Agnes Ekelan, "I can only eat if I sell firewood"

more...

Photogallery

PHILIPPINES: Rice shortage hits poor

Links and References

ReliefWeb Food crisis
The Secretary-General's High-Level Task Force
Food and Agriculture Organisation
World Bank
Overseas Development Institute
Famine Early Warning Systems Network
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
World Food Programme
BBC

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Global: Multimedia coverage, links and stories

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Farmers say they have been forced to smuggle fertilizers to areas where they are banned

PAKISTAN: ‘Anti-terrorist’ fertilizer ban hinders farmers

KHAR, 31 January 2010 (IRIN) - Along a road leading to the Bajaur tribal area on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, two men cast stealthy glances around them as they guide donkeys carrying bags covered with blankets.

As they approach a check-post manned by Pakistani soldiers, the men scramble up a hillside with their consignments, hoping to make their way around the barrier undetected. The men are not carrying drugs or weapons, per se, but outlawed plant fertilizers which they hope to sell to farmers in Bajaur. full report

FRONTLINE REPORTS

Increased hunger

PAKISTAN: Drought fears for wheat farmers
GUINEA: Food prices climb amid unrest

G8's historic shift needs applause

By Christopher Barrett
The announcement by President Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders of a US$20 billion three-year investment in developing-country agriculture marks a historic shift that merits widespread applause.
full report

Rising aid costs

LESOTHO: A mountain of challenges
BURKINA FASO: WFP expands food voucher distribution

Health affected

GLOBAL: Food aid that gets you two for the price of one
AFGHANISTAN: Food aid not reaching most vulnerable women, children

Reduced growth

GLOBAL: Economic slowdown to push 100m into poverty
INDONESIA: Poor hit hard as fuel prices rise

Threat of unrest

COMOROS: Concerns over possible social unrest
GUINEA-BISSAU: Soaring prices could trigger social conflict

Slideshow

Philippines: Rice shortage hits poor

Government intervention

GLOBAL: We need another Green Revolution
LESOTHO: A little money goes a long way

Opportunities?

GLOBAL: Improved farming rather than more food aid?
AFRICA: Helping small farmers feed a continent

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