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MSNBC
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The new funds, from a "generous response" of donors, will go for food in more than 60 countries that have been hardest hit by the food crisis, Sheeran told a U.N. food summit.
"We have mobilized our 10,000 employees and every dollar and euro given to u..
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MSNBC
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The World Bank estimates that higher food prices are pushing 30 million Africans into poverty. Zoellick said African leaders wanted action, not words.
“It would be unfortunate if (bio-energy) becomes the sole point of debate, because then we would no..
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BBC News
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The amount of money being spent globally on importing food is set to top $1 trillion (�528bn) in 2008, an influential report estimates.
Soaring food prices are the cause of the huge bill - likely to be up 26% on the 2007 total - said the UN's Food an..
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SF Gate
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A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country.
He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved.
WFP spokesman Pa..
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BBC News
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Food prices have risen 21% in China so far this year, fuelling concerns about inflation in the economy and the affordability of basic staple goods.
The surge was confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics, which also revealed that economic growth e..
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USA Today
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China executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog on Tuesday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash, the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis.
The execution of former Sta..
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Alter Net
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Corporate foundations that have pledged millions believe that genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production. Are they creating a 'green revolution' or hijacking the food supply?
Genetically altered crops will r..
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Al Jazeera
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Zheng, 62, headed the watchdog State Food and Drug Administration which sets standards for food and drug safety, from 1998 until he was sacked in 2005.
He was expelled from the ruling Communist party this year after investigators said he abused the..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's rate of inflation surged to 3,731.9%, driven by higher energy and food costs, and amplified by a drop in its currency, official figures show.
April's inflation rate jumped up from the 2,200% recorded last month, the Central Statistical Offic..
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Seattle Times
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Before Mao Lijun's business exported tainted wheat products that may have killed U.S. pets, his factory sickened people and plants around here for years.
Farmers in this poor rural area 400 miles northwest of Shanghai had complained to local government..
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USA Today
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China launched a food and drug safety crackdown Wednesday, following an announcement that authorities had detained managers from two companies linked to contaminated pet food that killed dogs and cats in North America.
State media, meanwhile, reported..
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Yahoo News
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A U.S. warship is approaching the area off the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates have anchored a hijacked ship chartered to carry U.N. food aid, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday. Gunmen wielding AK-47s stormed the Kenyan-owned MV Rozen on Sunday, ta..
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BBC News
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The UN food summit in Rome, called in response to soaring prices around the world, is to issue a declaration setting out its proposals.
It wants urgent action to help farmers plant more crops this year, but there are disagreements over the role of biof..
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BBC News
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged nations to seize an "historic opportunity to revitalise agriculture" as a way of tackling the food crisis.
Mr Ban told a UN-sponsored summit in Rome that food production would have to rise by 50% by 2030 to me..
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BBC News
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An African leader has dismissed the UN's food agency as a "waste of money" and called for it to be scrapped.
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal spoke out days after the UN announced an emergency plan to bring soaring world food prices under control...
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BBC News
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The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, is setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis.
Mr Ban said the world faced "widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale" because of soaring food prices...
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BBC News
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Key United Nations development agencies are meeting in Switzerland to try to develop solutions to ease the escalating global food crisis.
Led by secretary general Ban Ki-Moon, officials want to mitigate the impact of the steep rise in staple food price..
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BBC News
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Rice prices have scaled fresh heights in Asian trade amid concern that export bans by key producers will hit demand.
Rough rice for July delivery touched $24.745 per 100lb for the first time, before falling slightly.
Curbs are in place in India and..
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BBC News
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The head of the UN World Food Programme has said urgent action is required to stimulate food production and help the poor cope with soaring food prices.
Josette Sheeran told the BBC that the WFP was now providing food aid to an additional 100 million p..
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BBC News
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China is struggling to cope with its worst snowfall in decades, with officials warning of future food shortages as winter crops are wrecked.
The government is trying to convince people the situation is under control - praising officials and naming thre..
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