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Food Price Instability in the Global Marketplace: The Need for Food Security Programmes

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

It is remarkable how the prices of grain commodity crops have fallen recently. Wheat, for example, has plunged a whopping 46% since March this year....

Cheaper food for Christmas

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

CONSUMERS can look forward to some financial relief this festive season as declining inflation figures point to a gradual drop in food prices. The...

Genetically Engineered Crops Negatively Impact Global Food Security

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

The global increase in food prices has resulted in a siren call from the pro-biotech cheerleaders that GM crops should be more widely adopted. But...

GLOBAL: Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when there...

SOUTH AFRICA: Maize may suffer from high input costs

Thursday, August 28, 2008

High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in the region's largest producer, a grain farmers' body...

SOUTH AFRICA: Food and electricity prices spark union protest

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Thousands of members of the Congress of South African trade Unions (COSATU) took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday to protest rocketing food...

GLOBAL: Costly food opportunity to review aid responses

Sunday, April 20, 2008

High food prices have brought social unrest but they have also provided a "window of opportunity" to review global policies on the response to food...

GLOBAL: Eat local produce, help farmers, says FAO

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Rely more on local produce to cut food import bills and provide subsidised inputs to boost production, advised the United Nations Food and...

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Thirty percent less maize by 2030

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

As global warming pushes temperatures up and droughts become more intense, the production of maize, southern Africa's staple food, could drop by as...

SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE: ARVs behind bars

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Friday, February 15, 2008

South African police are denying detained undocumented HIV-positive migrants access to the crucial food needed to continue antiretroviral therapy,...

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