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  • Africa: The Shame of Food [column] 12 May 2008 08:52 GMT
    ... riots in Egypt, Cameroon, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Madagascar are a grim harbinger of ... which has lowered yields in major grain exporting countries such as Vietnam and Australia. Indeed, ... to join the league of net food exporters, we need a paradigm shift in the ...

  • The Shame of Food 12 May 2008 07:17 GMT
    ... riots in Egypt, Cameroon, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Madagascar are a grim harbinger of ... which has lowered yields in major grain exporting countries such as Vietnam and Australia. Indeed, ... to join the league of net food exporters, we need a paradigm shift in the ...

  • Time at the border is money  12 May 2008 06:57 GMT
    ... account for between 15% and 20% of import prices in many countries, the researchers say. ... of 8000 trucks in nine countries — Burkina Faso, Ghana, Chad, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and ... suffer as exports become less competitive and imported components, which manufacturers frequently rely on, are ...

  • Food crisis crosses globe 12 May 2008 06:15 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... percent wage increase for all government employees. Burkina Faso: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on rice, ...

  • Responses to food crisis 12 May 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... speculators. * THAILAND: The world's biggest rice exporter proposes an OPEC-style cartel with Laos, Myanmar, ... wage increase for all government employees. * BURKINA FASO: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on rice, ... government rice stocks. * ARGENTINA: Maintains rice export ban to Brazil and imposes export taxes on ...

  • Multinationals exploit global food crisis 12 May 2008 02:30 GMT
    ... out across the globe from Bangladesh to Burkina Faso, from China to Cameroon, and from Uzbekistan ... grain. World food stocks at record lows, export bans and a drought in Australia have ...

  • Impact of higher food prices 11 May 2008 08:45 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • Surging prices spurring violent food riots 11 May 2008 08:45 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • COUNTRIES ACT TO PREVENT UNREST 11 May 2008 07:45 GMT
    ... 30-percent wage increase for all government employees. Burkina Faso: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on rice, ... of government rice stocks. Argentina: Maintains rice export ban to Brazil and imposes export taxes ...

  • World leaders search for solutions to world food crisis 11 May 2008 06:55 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • Trying to solve the food crisis 11 May 2008 06:16 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • A look at responses to food crisis 11 May 2008 05:27 GMT
    ... and speculators. -THAILAND: The world's biggest rice exporter proposes an OPEC-style cartel with Laos, Myanmar, ... percent wage increase for all government employees. -BURKINA FASO: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on rice, ...

  • Rice smuggling escalates 11 May 2008 04:38 GMT
    ... such as Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Cote DIvoire, Burkina Faso, and Senegal have taken steps to waive off import tax on rice. However, what is disturbing ... Accra yesterday that most of the rice imported into Ghana in recent times was smuggled ...

  • World Food Glimmers of Hope'>World Food Glimmers of Hope 11 May 2008 04:32 GMT
    ... they are so close to success. In Burkina Faso, the president told me how desperately the ... Faso, I saw a government working to import drought resistant seeds and better manage scarce ... Visiting a primary school under construction in Ouagadougou, I told the children how I grew ...

  • What can be done about rising food prices? 11 May 2008 01:55 GMT
    ... in a number of countries including Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Egypt and contributed to civil ... persistently appeal for extensions of protection. These import-substituting policies have imposed substantial costs on developing ... India, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Cambodia and Egypt”. Export restrictions may seem appealing at first glance, ...

  • Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm 10 May 2008 18:56 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • A look at responses to food crisis 10 May 2008 18:55 GMT
    ... percent wage increase for all government employees. BURKINA FASO: Officials eliminate duties and taxes on rice, ... of government rice stocks. ARGENTINA: Maintains rice export ban to Brazil and imposes export taxes ...

  • Behind the food riots, a deeper debate over globalization and the secret of good farming 10 May 2008 18:54 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm 10 May 2008 18:54 GMT
    ... Union farm subsidies and tariffs, plus grain export bans and taxes triggered by the latest ... broken out from Bangladesh to Egypt to Burkina Faso. In Haiti, they cost the prime minister ...

  • Global Food Shock 10 May 2008 16:48 GMT
    ... rate, and China will likely have to import water in the form of grain. China isn't ... corn this year, and may become an importer. Half the world's soybean crop is now ... riots have also occurred in West Bengal, Burkina Faso, Yemen and Uzbekistan. Nations feel pressure to ...

  • Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis 10 May 2008 05:07 GMT
    ... out across the globe from Bangladesh to Burkina Faso, from China to Cameroon, and from Uzbekistan ... grain. World food stocks at record lows, export bans and a drought in Australia have ...

  • Beyond Crude 10 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... back up again. Like Niger, Mozambique, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Slovenia (84 central union committees ... the point, then, of levying surtaxes on imported vegetable oil and sugar, which only reduce ...

  • A Gulf in Giving: Oil-Rich States Starve the World Food Progra 10 May 2008 00:51 GMT
    ... producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the ... oil prices. The only other major oil exporter who made the WFP list of 2008 ... By contrast, the poverty-stricken African republic of Burkina Faso is listed as donating more than $600,000, ...

  • OIC endeavoring to rectify Muslim image 10 May 2008 00:51 GMT
    ... coastal African countries -- from Senegal to Burkina Faso and Chad -- there is a ... and those who have the money eat imported foods. We will all benefit [from these ...

  • A Gulf in Giving: Oil-Rich States Starve the World Food Program 9 May 2008 14:58 GMT
    ... producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the ... oil prices. The only other major oil exporter who made the WFP list of 2008 ... By contrast, the poverty-stricken African republic of Burkina Faso is listed as donating more than $600,000, ...


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