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Myanmar needs 32 million dollars in emergency agro-aid, says FAOBangkok - Cyclone-damaged Myanmar needs an estimated 32 million dollars in immediate emergency aid to help 52,000 farming families plant their rice this rainy season, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday. Time is not on our sid... ... |
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UN food chief seeks tenfold rise in aidRich countries must increase their aid to agriculture to $30bn a year to help resolve the global food crisis, according to Jacques Diouf, FAO director-general ... |
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UN: Food prices remain high despite higher productionRome - High food prices continue to hit people in poor countries that spend a large part of their income on food, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said in a report released Thursday. Describing it as a worrying development... ... |
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Food riots to worsen without global action: U.N.ROME (Reuters) - Food riots in developing countries will spread unless world leaders take major steps to reduce prices for the poor, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Friday. ... |
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UN: Global rice production to rise by 1.8 per centRome - The world's production of rice is set to increase by 12 million tons or 1.8 percent in 2008, easing the current very tight supply, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday. But international trade in rice, on... ... |
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Grain drainBy Tom PhilpottRemember awhile back, when a fertilizer magnate raised the specter of global famine? He said: If you had any major upset where you didn't have a crop in a major growing agricultural region this year, I believe you'd see famine ... We need to have a record crop in 2008 just to st... |
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