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As aid agencies warn more than 9-million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and...
Since the 2008 food crisis, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced an increase in civilian and labour protests. These protests embrace a broad coalition of support, as well as a broad array of issues....
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the poorest being most affected. While some...
Using panel data from Mozambique collected in 2007 and 2008, this report, from the World Bank, explores the impact of the food crisis on the welfare of households living with HIV/AIDS.
In today's podcast, Cosatu calls for more exchange controls and a capital flow tax to ease unemployment; the FAO reports that malnutrition has decreased for the first time in 15 years; and, the...
Zimbabwe's troubled farm sector has started to recover from depths plumbed two years ago when it faced a food crisis, but funding problems could cut into programmes helping farmers recover, a UN...
In today's podcast, the SA government says that the 2010 FIFA World Cup pumped an estimated R93-billion into the economy; OCHA calls for more aid for Niger as a food crisis intensifies; and,...
Date: 12/09/2009 Source: COSATU Title: COSATU: Ntshalintshali: Speech by the Deputy General Secretary to the Annual Summit Meeting of the National Economic Development and...