je.st
news
Tag: food security
Ebola Threatens Global Food Security
2014-10-14 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - FAO has launched a new programme to urgently assist 90,000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola epidemic is having on rural economies, agricultural activities and markets.
Tags: food
security
global
threatens
Climate change threatens Arctic food security and culture
2014-10-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Its increasingly difficult to find food using traditional hunting methods in the Arctic, and at the same time, provisions sold at stores are unaffordable for many, jeopardizing food security and cultural life in the region, Arctic experts and residents said, responding to a United Nations report released Monday that highlights the impact of climate change on Arctic communities. Everything from ice-dependent algae to marine mammals to humans relying on sea ice for food and economic opportunities...
Tags: change
food
security
culture
Middle East wars could put worlds food security at risk
2014-09-08 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Millions of people could in future face starvation as an indirect result of the violent turmoil in the Middle East which has the highest concentration of wild crop plants needed to produce new food varieties, scientists said. Civil wars raging in Syria and Iraq threaten future food resources because of the crucial role the region plays as the home of the wild plants continually needed to improve the genetic quality of domesticated crops. The region, part of the Fertile Crescent, an ancient...
Food is the ultimate security need, new map shows
2014-08-27 03:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is a graphic demonstration of the sickening, symbiotic relationship between hunger and conflict and highlights food supply problems from Somalia to India to Spain Share Tweet this Email Sub-saharan Africa dominates a new food security risk map, while the Indian sub-continent and Iberian peninsula also stand out Map: Maplecroft A new map of food security risk around the world is, in some ways, depressingly familiar. Sub-saharan Africa leaps out as the place where the most people fear for their...
Food Security a Passionate Issue
2014-08-23 00:10:00| National Hog Farmer
Food security, often pertaining to food safety, is actually a concern Keith Roach has about people wondering where their next meal will be coming from. read more
Tags: food
security
issue
passionate
Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] next »