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Food could soon hold a greater value than gold to many people with rising prices, civil unrest and food products such as corn being converted into fuel. Americans may soon understand what other countries such as Egypt already know.
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On Saturday the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, announced that the Government of Canada will be adding $6,825,000 to Chad and Niger's hunger crisis.
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Two of the largest humanitarian agencies, Oxfam International and Save The Children, are stating that the western region of Africa is on the brink of starvation. The aid agencies launched campaigns that appealed for $10 million just to help Niger.
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History is repeating itself in Ethiopia. Twenty-five years after a devastating famine killed one million people, famine looms again - threatening 6.5 million lives.
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Guatemala's President, Alvaro Colom, declared a 'state of calamity' last week, hoping to get international assistance to help some 54,000 families who are at high risk because of a regional food shortage.
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The World Bank Group has called for more resources and greater focus to help the millions of people around the globe who go hungry each day.
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A senior United Nations environmental expert highlighted the “silent” crisis of desertification or land degradation which if approached properly, can help address food crisis, climate change.
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The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says agricultural production must be raised to end the global food crisis, which has driven more than 75 million additional people into hunger and poverty.
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The Executive Board of WFP has approved a new four-year strategic plan that will be critical to addressing soaring hunger needs due to the global food crisis.
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The top United Nations relief official said today that $6 billion in new funding to tackle the global food crisis has been pledged.
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Food crisis Headlines
The opportunity to avert a major food crisis in the West African state of Niger is closing fast, Save the Children warns.
Pictures reveal West Africa's battle with drought and hunger
Seven aid agencies warn that Yemen is on the verge of a hunger catastrophe as a result of political instability and rising prices.
British aid agencies working in Niger are warning of a food crisis after severe crop failures across the impoverished country.
Niger faces a complicated humanitarian crisis
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