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Zambian President Michael Sata said on Monday he feared riots if the price of the staple maize meal remained unaffordable for the majority of people in Africa's top copper producer.
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...
Soaring food prices could trigger a global catastrophe, with the world's poor unable to feed their families, human rights activists said on Monday.
The warning came as world leaders arrived...
Climate change is aggravating the global food crisis and many poor countries could be facing the start of major hunger disasters, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on...
India and Africa vowed on Wednesday to strive together for food security and called on the western world to rethink diverting huge food stocks for biofuel, creating shortages and driving up prices...
Last October, shortly after joining the World Bank Group, I proposed a vision to guide our work: to help build an inclusive and sustainable globalization - to overcome poverty, enhance growth with...
Zambia has maintained that it will not allow genetically modified
foods to enter its territory despite shortages, as biotech foods
are not yet scientifically proved to be suitable for human...