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Tag: food crisis
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Pakistan: People chase wheat truck on bikes as food crisis deepens
In a video shared on social media, some people riding a motorcycle are seen chasing a truck carrying sacks of flour, and people can be seen chasing the vehicle to buy the lot.
January 15, 2023 -
Cruel food inflation hits Pakistan
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reports inflation measured through the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) — or price changes in 51 essential items — cumulatively and also separately for five “expenditure groups”. In the first group are people who spend up to Rs17,732 per month and in the last group fall those who spend more than Rs44,175.
July 19, 2022 -
G-20 finance chiefs pledge to tackle rising food crisis, but remain split over Russia’s role in it
During the talks, financial leaders from Western countries accused Russian economic technocrats of complicity in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, while also pointing to the war as the cause of the current global economic headwinds.
July 17, 2022 -
Looming food crisis
The planet is undergoing an ecological emergency; we’ve started experiencing powerful heat waves, droughts, fires and record rains.
July 16, 2022 -
US biofuel quest behind food shortage
The dramatic rise in food prices coincided with the first wave of expansion of the biofuel industry in the US.
July 7, 2022 -
Countries from Mediterranean region agree to cooperate to tackle food challenges
The Italian capital has hosted the first-ever Mediterranean Ministerial Dialogue on the Food Security Crisis, which ended with an agreement between representatives of more than two dozen countries to work together to combat rising costs for basic food products.
June 9, 2022 -
“Ukraine war could stoke global food crisis”: UN Secretary-General
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, warned that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could stoke a global food crisis hitting the developing countries the hardest.
June 2, 2022 -
Food blackmail
The core of the crisis three months after Russia invaded Ukraine must be that transportation of food grain from Ukraine, even to such impoverished regions as Lebanon and Somalia, has been disrupted.
May 26, 2022 -
Mamata blames BJP for food crisis, famine in country
She alleged some TMC leaders switched over to BJP to protect the public money they had looted
January 12, 2021 -
UN: Yemen food crisis is man-made, partly as a war tactic
The UN development chief in Yemen says the crisis that has left millions hungry and on the brink of famine is "a man-made disaster" driven not only by decades of poverty and lack of investment but also by economic strangulation used as a tactic of war. Auke Lootsma told UN reporters on Monday by video...
August 2, 2017 -
UN: Yemen food crisis is man-made, partly as a war tactic
The UN development chief in Yemen says the crisis that has left millions hungry and on the brink of famine is "a man-made disaster" driven not only by decades of poverty and lack of investment but also by economic strangulation used as a tactic of war. Auke Lootsma told UN reporters on Monday by video...
August 2, 2017
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