Jun

6

Billions more needed to rescue world from food crisis

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon said, we need 20 million dollars a year would be needed to avoid disasters. He said, till now only 3 million dollars of emergency aid were made.

Ban said: we have to increase our resources; we need extra 15 to 20 billion dollars.

In Rome meeting, they announced new funding near about 2.7 billion dollars on the second day of the meeting. Ban also said, we have to increase 50 percent food production by 2030.

The UN World Food Programme announced 1.2 billion dollars for food crisis. The Islamic Development Band announced 1.5 billions dollars for poorest countries.

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Jun

4

Portugal calls for international aid for poor countries

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Jaime Silva Portuguese Agriculture Minister said on Tuesday that the international communities should increase aid to poor countries. Silva offering special cooperation between Portugal and Portuguese speaking countries to face the food shortage.

Silva also said, it’s better to answer hunger problem instead of a theoretical discussion of the problem. Silva said all these before traveling to Italy to participate in the meeting of UN FAO.

Silva said, we have to understand hunger annoyance due to price hike of fuels and raw materials. Portugal proposes “structural aid for the countries where there is hunger. Continue reading…



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May

31

FAO utter to reactivate agriculture due to world food crisis

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urged countries to increase their agriculture to handle world food crisis.

World governments should urgently introducing and apply public policies like enlarging the growing crops area to boost grain production and distribution of food protect and help the most needed countries and their population.

FAO made the appeal days before the High Level Conference on Food Security due to be held in Rome. FAO said the current food crisis can be addressed from three perspectives.

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