Sharing the Ascension Experience
North Korea still hovers in a crisis of malnutrition “with no end in sight”, and its already poor hospitals are getting worse, say United Nations officials. Three successive years of good weather have improved the domestic food supply, but the country could still slip back into famine within six months if international relief was halted, … Read more
“Nearly 35 per cent of (West African) children under 5 years of age are stunted, a sign of chronically poor diet, while about 5 to 15 per cent of young children are wasted, a sign of acute hunger.”Improving the diets of West Africans facing nutritional deficiencies will be the focus of a workshop next week … Read more
Farmers, key to a secure food future? Tropical regions could enjoy secure food supplies over the next fifty years if local smallholder farmers are encouraged to help themselves, says a university of East Anglia development expert writing in this week’s journal Science. Professor Michael Stocking acknowledges that soil degradation is rife in some areas and … Read more
The maiden conference of commissioners for agriculture of the nine member states of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has taken off in Benin City with a call on the oil rich but crises prone zone to commence massive production of food and cash crops.Declaring the conference open at the Motel Benin Plaza, the Deputy … Read more
Jordan AMMAN — The Ministry of Agriculture in association with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is working to finalise a package of programmes to increase the Kingdom’s food productivity and consequently enhance its food security, a ministry official said. “Our programmes, which are to be discussed in detail early next month during a … Read more
New measures aim to boost agricultureLUSAKA – President Levy Mwanawasa has announced measures aimed at turning agriculture into one of the main drivers of Zambia’s economy. The fall in copper prices, Zambia’s main source of foreign currency, has made the country focus on economic diversification. Among the measures announced by Mwanawasa include sourcing “cheap foreign … Read more
Kabul, Afghanistan – Few things symbolize the success of American agriculture like the big, white bags of wheat, stamped “USA,” that sit beside cloth-covered bowls of bread dough in a mud-walled United Nations bakery. American farmers produce so much food that a lot of it is given away to prop up U.S. commodity prices. It … Read more
With the Autumn harvest now complete across the country, Viet Nam looks set to record bumper food production figures this year, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Huy Ngo said. 36.7 million tonnes of grain were produced in 2003, including 34.2 million tonnes of unhusked rice. The country has regained its position as the … Read more
Nasa’s scientist cooks have a lot on their plate catering to rigours of dining in spaceMs Vickie Kloeris would have liked nothing more than to suffer the traditional anxieties of Thanksgiving: Would the turkey be moist? Would the in-laws get along? But it was hard to concentrate on such mundane matters when you had things … Read more
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has done more than any cataclysmic weather event to starve ZimbabweansA major new report from the Untied Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation says that the number of hungry and malnourished people in the world was increasing, even though there was sufficient food for everyone. The UN report said that though war, … Read more