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22 May 2013
                       
 
 
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07 Jan 2013
 
 
Zambia's Sata says high maize meal price could spark riots
Food security
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.
 
 
15 Sep 2010
 
 
 
Daily podcast - September 15, 2010
PODCAST
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...
 
 
04 Jun 2008
 
UN: Ban: Address at High-level Conference on World Food Security (03/06/2008)
Topics
Address at High-level Conference on World Food Security, Roem, Italy
 
 
03 Jun 2008
 
Food price "catastrophe" feared on eve of summit
INTERNATIONAL
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...
 
 
21 May 2008
 
SA: Tshabalala-Msimang: World Health Assembly (20/05/2008)
Topics
Address by the Minister of Health of South Africa, Dr ME Tshabalala-Msimang, at the 61st World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland
 
 
23 Apr 2008
 
Annan warns of 'hunger disasters'
INTERNATIONAL
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...
 
 
09 Apr 2008
 
Africa, India urge world to ensure food security
INTERNATIONAL
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...
 
 
02 Apr 2008
 
World Bank: Zoellick: A challenge of economic statecraft (02/04/2008)
Topics
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...
 
 
21 Jun 2004
 
Zambia maintains its stance on GM foods
News
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...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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