Food Security News
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Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro accused Lorenzo Mendoza, owner of Empresas Polar SA, Venezuela’s largest privately held company, of reducing food production and creating shortages amid record scarcity and the region’s fastest inflation.
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The Howard G. Buffett Foundation will donate $5 million to help develop a hydro power project in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to a quarter of the world’s remaining endangered mountain gorillas.
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The Thai baht’s rally to the highest level in 16 years is hindering exports from the world’s biggest rice shipper, curbing the government’s efforts to diminish record state stockpiles and threatening to increase its losses.
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After India banned exports of wheat in 2007, neighboring countries panicked and limited their grain sales, which pushed prices to records and sparked food riots from Egypt to Haiti for the next year.
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Indonesia’s rice harvest, the world’s third-largest, may climb to a record for a second straight year, curbing the need to import grain, the United Nations said.
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When Eleni Gabre-Madhin climbed onto a cafeteria table as a junior at Cornell University almost 30 years ago and begged students to end the tradition of dinnertime food fights, she was mocked.
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Coffee picker Hector Gonzalez says he feels personal pain as he watches leaves stripped off plants from a fungus infecting 70 percent of the crop on the Salvadoran farm where he works.
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Louis Dreyfus Holding BV, a Dutch commodities trader, will more than double grain-storage capacity in Russia in the next four years as weather changes affect the local harvest.
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President Barack Obama is proposing a fundamental shift in how the U.S. feeds the hungry overseas, a plan the administration says will help more people for less money though critics warn it will cost jobs at home.
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Biofuels will cost U.K. motorists about 460 million pounds ($707 million) this year as the government increases their use in transport fuel, driving up food prices in poorer countries, Chatham House said.
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