Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Dhaka urges developed countries to help check food price hike United News of Bangladesh . New York The foreign adviser, Iftekhar Ahmed, has urged the surplus developed countries to do more to rein in the rising food price.
WB calls for new deal to fight hunger Agence France-Presse . Washington The World Bank on Wednesday called on the international community to mount a wide-ranging fight against hunger as skyrocketing food prices critically threaten the world's poor.
Food Prices To Rise For Years, Biofuel Firms Say UK: April 4, 2008 LONDON - Staple food prices will rise for some years, but should eventually fall to historical averages as harvests increase, biofuel company executives said on Thursday. Soaring demand for better quality food from rapidly industrialising emerging markets …
The Consumers International (CI) battle against marketing of unhealthy food to children has gathered support from domestic groups as well. The London-based CI is an independent consumer network with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries. Ahmedabad's Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) and Chennai's Consumers Association of India have …
World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday called for a new coordinated global response to deal with spiraling food prices exacerbating shortages, hunger and malnutrition around the globe. Speaking ahead of International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington next week, Zoellick said the global food crisis now required …
Governments across the developing world are scrambling to boost farm imports and restrict exports in an attempt to forestall rising food prices and social unrest. Saudi Arabia cut import taxes across a range of food products on Tuesday, slashing its wheat tariff from 25 per cent to zero and reducing …
A group set up by the Planning Commission has pointed out that the reimposition of controls on wheat and pulses under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955, "has not had any favourable effect on the price and the availability of these commodities has only added to the costs of dealing …
India has expressed concern over the increasing use of food grains for the production of bio fuels. Stating India's position at the "Third International Grain Summit-2008' at Sharm-el Sheikh, Egypt, minister of state for food and public distribution Akhilesh Prasad Singh said this had resulted in an unprecedented increase in …
By Raphael Minder in Hong Kong, John Aglionby in Jakarta,,Amy Yee in New Delhi, and Daniel Ten Kate in Bangkok For years, farmers in the remote village of Pallantikang on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi relied on middlemen to sell their produce and found themselves largely isolated from the realities …
Soaring food prices are making holes into the wallets of consumers but throwing a golden opportunity to poor farmers in Asia, including India, to ramp up production and increase profits, a report by think tank International Food Policy Research Institute has said. "The years of falling food prices were good …
Global investment funds smelt greater profit potential in commodities than in stocks and from 2002 started diving into oil, followed by metals and grains NEW YORK, April 2: High food prices around the world? Blame, at least in part, the investors who moved their money into commodities in the past …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide approximately 90,000 metric tons of food aid worth $67.8 million to Bangladesh this year. One third of the food aid will be used to assist Cyclone Sidr affected people of Barguna and Bagerhat districts and the rest will be distributed …
The anti-inflation package hammered out by the Cabinet Committee on Prices (CCP) in a marathon three-hour-long meeting on Monday night makes it clear that the government is short of ideas. This is not to suggest that there are obvious solutions waiting to be tapped. The truth is that the nature …
Cheaper imports negatively impacts food security; it seems the government is not bothered about this fact. Read this in tandem. India has drastically reduced import duties on edible oils and rice in a bid to check rising inflation. While the import tariff on rice has been brought down to zero, …
The Bharatiya Janata Party has charged the United Progressive Alliance government with "mismanagement of the food economy' and warned that prices of cereals, pulses, edible oil, and other essentials would continue to rise affecting the poorest the most. Even as the per capita production of cereals in the country had …
Global agricultural commodity prices, which are rising for the last two years, are expected to remain high in the near future, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). FAO, along with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in a recent report on food inflation, has indicated that the …
Sitting on a stock of 5.5 million tonnes of wheat before the marketing season, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) today expressed confidence that it would meet the government's procurement target of 1.5 million tonnes for public distribution system. "The closing stock is 5.5 million tonnes as against the buffer …
Cabinet Committee on Prices holds emergency meet late in the evening at PM's residence BS Reporters / New Delhi April 01, 2008 Scraps import duties on edible oil; pulses exports ban stays. Taken by surprise over the recent spike in wholesale price inflation, the government today scrapped import duties on …
In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are also relatively poor. The impacts on poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average …
