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  • Food prices to fall again this month  16 May 2008 05:48 GMT
    ... other grains, said Abdolreza Abbassian of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The FAO food-price index of 55 foods ... and soaring rice prices caused riots in Haiti and Egypt. The FAO index includes “basic ...

  • Rice Exports Banned in Madagascar 16 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... hikes could cause social unrest. Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Mauritania, Niger, Peru, the Philippines, Uzbekistan ... a year. A recent study by the UN Development Programme found that over 50 percent of ...

  • 3 generations taking mission trip to Haiti 16 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... with far greater needs. Recent events in Haiti have created a catastrophic level of need ... this already impoverished nation resulted in the United Nations and the World Food Bank scrambling ...

  • Haiti's Elections: The Case for a Short Delay 16 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... . This document is also available in Haiti’s Elections: The Case for a Short Delay Latin ... required from the international community, primarily the UN, the U.S., France, Canada and the Latin ...

  • Haiti after the Elections: Challenges for Préval's First 100 Days 16 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... . This document is also available in Haiti after the Elections: Challenges for Préval’s First 100 Days ... to Brazil, Chile and Argentina; to the UN and to Washington; and to Cuba, Venezuela and ...

  • Thievery Corporation Teams With U.N. To Feed Hungry Stomachs, Ears 16 May 2008 02:08 GMT
    ... Music Festival and teaming up with the United Nations World Food Programme to call attention ... poor. As food riots break out from Haiti to Egypt and parts outward, it's good ...

  • Food price surge may be nearing end 15 May 2008 22:30 GMT
    ... A food price index compiled by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) fell in April for the first time ... the world and toppled a government in Haiti. The World Food Program, facing an unprecedented ...

  • The food crisis and the failure of capitalism 15 May 2008 19:19 GMT
    ... various forces behind the food crisis in Haiti. During previous waves of food price inflation the poor ... has to leave. If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that's OK, ... cent, and dairy 48 per cent. The FAO food price index as a whole rose ...

  • Tussles over biofuels, trade and even capitalism itself are likely to take centre stage in Lima, Peru on Friday, as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and some 60 heads of state from the EU and Latin America and the 15 May 2008 18:37 GMT
    ... help the poor? Ask the president of Haiti how much promises from Europe and the United States ... such as the World Bank and the UN World Food Programme, as well as environmental and ...

  • Could the global food crisis impact America? 15 May 2008 18:37 GMT
    ... crisis impact America? NEW YORK (NNPA) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in a recent meeting ... Egypt saw food riots. Food riots in Haiti resulted in at least seven deaths in ... situation,” said Jacques Diouf, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The UN World ...

  • Haiti on the 'Death Plan' 15 May 2008 18:11 GMT
    ... Cayes, one of the largest cities in Haiti. A dozen machete-wielding peasants stood defiantly in front of ... set a date for the departure of UN peacekeepers and end the "death plan," a reference ...

  • 30 years ago Haiti grew all the rice it needed. 15 May 2008 17:15 GMT
    ... 30 years ago Haiti grew all the rice it needed. The ... capita income is less than $400. The United Nations reports life expectancy in Haiti is ...

  • Puerto Rico Governor Taking Dispute with U.S. to U.N. 15 May 2008 17:15 GMT
    ... Acevedo is scheduled to appear before the United Nations Decolonization Committee in New York next ... the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The tremendous increase was the result of ...

  • EU to tussle with Latin America's 'Pink Tide' at Lima summit 15 May 2008 15:59 GMT
    ... help the poor? Ask the president of Haiti how much promises from Europe and the United States ... such as the World Bank and the UN World Food Programme, as well as environmental and ...

  • Cyclone Damage to Myanmar Rice May Flare Prices 15 May 2008 13:10 GMT
    ... The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said cyclone Nargis damaged 20 percent of ... has sparked riots in Africa and toppled Haiti's government. Although Asia consumes nearly 90 percent of ... to the report, quoted in the Labour Union-run Lao Dong newspaper on Thursday. This year the ...

  • Haitian protesters trade food riots for jobs 15 May 2008 11:32 GMT
    ... Guyler Delva and Tom Brown LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters): The demonstrators who ignited last month's violent ... five people were killed in clashes with UN peacekeepers in April, had vowed to take to ...

  • Critics blast Harper for dithering on Security Council seat 15 May 2008 09:56 GMT
    ... say that we are leaders in several United Nations missions - in Afghanistan, in Haiti, in Darfur. We have cracked down on ... argued that Canada's indecision about whether to run for a Security Council seat reflects a ...

  • Critics blast Harper on dithering on campaign for UN Security Council seat 15 May 2008 09:45 GMT
    ... say that we are leaders in several United Nations missions - in Afghanistan, in Haiti, in Darfur. We have cracked down on ... argued that Canada's indecision about whether to run for a Security Council seat reflects a ...

  • BIDEN Announces Four-Part Plan for Addressing Global Food Crisis 15 May 2008 06:51 GMT
    ... "Responding to the Global Food Crisis." The United Nations estimates that global food prices have risen ... and angry; some are even rioting. "From Haiti to Egypt to Bangladesh, riots have broken ... by Executive Director Josette Sheeran of the UN World Food Program, Dr. Peter McPherson, a ...

  • As Australia dries, a global shortage of rice 15 May 2008 05:37 GMT
    ... price of staplesThe World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization both ... vulnerable to extreme price swings. Senegal and Haiti each import four-fifths of their rice. And ...

  • Breadbasket dependence and the end of cheap food 15 May 2008 04:03 GMT
    ... A Haitian vendor sells mangos on Friday in the Port-au-Prince ... and vegetable fat and dried in the sun. Photo: AFP Rapidly rising food prices around the ... struggling to generate foreign exchange, importation the FAO projects will increase in the coming decades. ...

  • OPINION: Eat the rich 15 May 2008 02:49 GMT
    ... as Egypt and Indonesia, Guinea and Mexico, Haiti and Uzbekistan, Mauritania and Yemen. On the other side ... affected. According to Josette Sheeran, executive director, UN World Food Programme, "We are seeing those who ...

  • Eat the rich 14 May 2008 17:57 GMT
    ... as Egypt and Indonesia, Guinea and Mexico, Haiti and Uzbekistan, Mauritania and Yemen. On the other side ... affected. According to Josette Sheeran, executive director, UN World Food Programme, “We are seeing those who ...

  • Food crisis may worsen before it gets better, UN says 14 May 2008 16:45 GMT
    ... UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - The spreading food crisis—triggered primarily ... at the Rome-based World Food Program. The UN Population Fund is particularly concerned with the ... UN Country Teams in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Haiti and Nigeria, responding to the consequences of ...

  • Venezuela's Debt to Cuba 14 May 2008 15:58 GMT
    ... of the countries in that region including Haiti, Jamaica and Nicaragua also enjoy this political solidarity. ... condiciones Cuba y Venezuela para avanzar en un proceso unitario. Discurso de Hugo Chávez Frías, Presidente ...


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