Tag: food security
Shortage, food inflation to push up living expenses
If Marcos Jr. is able to avert food shortage, he will get no thanks since heâs expected to do that
As rice shortage looms, farmers remain unaided
Expect low rice harvest and high prices as usual this Christmas. The Philippines must import 2.9 million tons â 58 million sacks.
Manila archdioceseâs ecology ministry stands against âcommercializationâ of âgolden riceâ
The Department of Agriculture earlier announced that it will start massive production of âgolden rice" seeds in vitamin A-deficient provinces
Southeast Asian MPs urge ASEAN economic ministers to immediately tackle food...
âIt is necessary to put in place a coordinated effort to protect the most vulnerable from a potentially devastating economic downturnâ
Global food crisis ‘will kill millions’ by disease, health executive warns
The knock-on effects of the food shortages mean many will die not only of starvation but from having weaker defenses against diseases
Okay, city boys, start planting, raising fish
Good idea. A city boy planting rice in his living room would take a hundred days to harvest.
Famine and starvation to come from Putinâs war
The crises will grow worse and we can expect hardship ahead with more belt-tightening
North Koreans, already hungry, now short of cooking oil
North Korea needs external food aid to meet its basic needs, according to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Philippines approves commercial use of genetically engineered rice
Golden Rice will be initially deployed in areas with high prevalence of Vitamin A deficiency by the third quarter of 2022
Pope Francis to UN chief: World hunger âa crime that violates...
In a July 26 message to UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres, the pope called for a ânew mindsetâ in the battle against malnutrition
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