food

UN chief to lead meeting with Spanish Premier next month to deal with hunger crisis

15 December 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he and the Prime Minister of Spain have agreed to co-chair a high-level meeting next month aimed at tackling the urgent hunger crisis afflicting one billion people worldwide.
General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann

General Assembly President calls for ‘food democracy’ in face of global crisis

19 November 2008
General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto today called for a new politics “that starts from the bottom up, not the top down” in the face of the current global food crisis of soaring prices and mass hunger.

Financial crisis likely to keep food prices high despite record cereal crop – UN

6 November 2008
Even though global cereal production is expected to hit a new record this year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is cautioning that the impact of the current financial crisis on the agricultural sector could mean a surge in food prices in the coming year.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses high-level event

Ban warns leaders of perils of inaction on food crisis and climate change

25 September 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a high-level gathering tonight on the combined impact of the global food crisis and climate change with a call to world leaders to hold each other accountable for making real progress to helping the hundreds of millions of people in need.
UN food assistance programme with school children among the primary targets

High food prices plunge another 75 million people into hunger, says UN agency

18 September 2008
Rising food prices have pushed 75 million more people into the ranks of the world’s famished, and threaten efforts to realize the goal of halving the number of those in hunger by 2015, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

UN agency calls for rise in farm production to combat global food crisis

17 September 2008
Agricultural production must be raised to end the global food crisis, which has driven more than 75 million additional people into hunger and poverty, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told the Italian Parliament today.

High food prices spur expansion in Eastern European crops – UN food agency

11 September 2008
A senior United Nations food agency official today predicted a bumper harvest of cereal crops in Russia and Ukraine for this year and said the region possesses significant untapped agricultural potential.

UN agency supports struggling farmers in Swaziland affected by food price crisis

8 September 2008
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced plans today to help cash-strapped farmers in Swaziland, affected by the global food price crisis, buy seeds in time for the next planting season.

Food crisis threatens millions of lives in Somalia, UN agencies warn

22 August 2008
More than three million Somalis – or roughly half the country's population – will be totally dependent of food aid and emergency assistance over the next 12 months, United Nations agencies are warning.

Plant mutation could boost crop yields and help tackle food crisis – UN official

12 August 2008
Plant mutation, a scientific technique that dramatically improves crop productivity, could be part of the solution to the current food and energy crisis that threatens to plunge millions worldwide into hunger, according to a United Nations expert on the subject.