World-News

The world's richest nations are falling short on pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010 at a time when soaring food prices risk a global food shortage, a watchdog has reported.

https://tinyurl.com/4h6bth


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/16/9664/

Fuel from algae
https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/359.html



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels

The New York Times writes, "One might expect that food riots in Egypt and Haiti would convince the world's wealthy nations of the need to do more to feed the world's poorest. If not, maybe the threat of 100 million more people falling into poverty due to soaring food prices would spur them to help. Yet at last week's United Nations food summit, the world's more-developed nations proved, once again, that domestic politics trumps both humanitarian concerns and sound strategic calculations."

https://www.truthout.org/article/politics-and-hunger



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+riot
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price

By Ibrahim Turner

What is in store for the billions of poor people around the world who live on $1 a day? What is in store for the relatively rich populations of America and Europe when fuel prices have greater and greater impact on already rising food prices, driven up by these same speculators?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20058.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=speculators
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price

Zur Neige gehende Energieträger, Klimawandel und Wassermangel lassen den globalen Spätkapitalismus an seine Entwicklungsgrenzen stoßen.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28093/1.html

Die Menschheit finanziert teure Kriege und teure Weltraumflüge, aber den Hunger auf unserem Heimatplaneten kann sie immer noch nicht besiegen. Im Frühjahr 2008 hungern vor allem in Afrika und Südostasien 862 Millionen Menschen und 26.000 Menschen verhungern jeden Tag – auch heute.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741683741ms103

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/06/9444/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julian+Borger

https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9191


Informant: Dorothee Krien



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michel+Chossudovsky

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/04/9408/



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walden+Bello

Billions of dollars are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West while millions starve around the world, Jacques Diouf, the United Nations food agency chief, has told world leaders at a summit on food security in Rome.

https://tinyurl.com/6qskrp


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacques+Diouf