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04 Jun 2008

UN: Ban: Address at High-level Conference on World Food Security (03/06/2008)

Address at High-level Conference on World Food Security, Roem, Italy

03 Jun 2008

Food summit blames trade barriers for high prices

The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly 1 billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export...

Food price "catastrophe" feared on eve of summit

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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...

30 May 2008

SA: Manuel: Treasury Dept Budget Vote Speech 2008/09 (29/05/2008)

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Budget Vote Speech for National Treasury (Vote 7) and Statistics South Africa (Vote 11) Trevor A Manuel, MP Minister of Finance

World Bank approves $1,2bn funding for food crisis

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World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Thursday announced $1.2 billion in loans and grant financing to expand its assistance to poor countries struggling with the effects of soaring fuel and food...

29 May 2008

Food crisis offers opportunity for Africa - UN, World Bank

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Urgent action is needed to help the poor who are devastated by soaring food prices, but Africa, with sufficient help, faces an opportunity and can become a solution to the global food crisis, the...

Climate fund seen totalling $5.5 billion - report

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Major industrialised countries are expected to create a multibillion-dollar fund later this year to help developing countries cut greenhouse gas emissions, World Bank President Robert Zoellick was...

21 May 2008

Poverty fighters must target economic growth - report

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Governments, aid agencies and others who want to cut poverty in the world's poorest countries and elsewhere must concentrate more on boosting headline overall economic growth, a World...

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