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World Food Day 2008
"World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy"
World Food Day, October 16th, is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger.
World Food Day activities aim at expanding global awareness in an effort to reduce the effects of increasingly severe climate patterns on agriculture and the impact of biofuels on food production.
High food prices and related issues, challenges food security at the present time, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry people, notes Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’s Chief of World Food Day events, Sidaty Aidara.
With the number of undernourished people currently estimated at more than 850 million, high food prices are not only putting at greater risk the hungry but those also on the brink of poverty.
Biodiesel Fuel Alternative
Fri, 06/27/2008 - 15:28 — gardenspotFor several years in the United States, typically in summer, there would be complaints and concerns with the price of oil and its effects on the price of gasoline. It has all finally come to a head this year (2008) and it affects countries world wide, leading to food riots and protests in some places. Not only do we have to deal with high oil prices but there is also a food crisis caused by a push to use food (such as corn for ethanol) as a source of alternative fuel.
The debate and issues raised by climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, peak oil and geopolitical risks relating to energy dependence and the environmental risks associated with oil and gas exploration, drilling, refining a distribution, governments have begun supporting biodiesel production in a HUGE way.
U.N. Expert Calls Food Crisis "a silent tsunami"
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 22:54 — ArdenTue April 22, 2008 - CNN reports that a U.N. expert calls the current global food crisis "a silent tsunami."
"Those battling global warming by promoting biofuels may unintentionally be adding to skyrocketing world food prices, creating what one expert calls 'a silent tsunami' in developing nations.
"The rising prices are 'threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger,' Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations' World Food Program, said on the agency's Web site Tuesday.
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