Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | One comment
DAMASCUS, May 8 (Reuters) - Worse than expected weather will plunge Syria’s wheat production to a nine-year low this year and the government may use its strategic reserve to help meet domestic needs, a senior agriculture official said on Thursday.
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | 4 comments
The old ways no longer cut it.
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Forty percent of all Egyptians live below or just above the poverty line
Liberal and left-wing political activists in Egypt have called for a general strike on Sunday to protest against rising prices.
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Posted by John Higgins under: Famines
Friday, April 25th, 2008 | One comment
VIENNA, Austria - A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday .
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Monday, April 21st, 2008 | 6 comments
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008 | One comment
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - The U.N. chief warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 | One comment
(CNN) — Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world’s attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | 3 comments

Rising food prices of more than 40 per cent have helped spark riots in some countries, including Haiti (AFP: Thony Belizaire)
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | One comment
CAIRO, Egypt: Police say a teenager injured in demonstrations in the northern Egyptian city of Mahalla al-Kobra died from his wounds.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | Post a comment

Scientists are trying to find varieties with natural resistance
Scientists say poorer populations in vulnerable countries could starve if a disease called Ug-99 hits yields hard enough to push up wheat prices.
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Posted by John Higgins under: Famines