Famines
Absolutely heartbreaking!!!
CAPTION BENEATH THE PHOTO I RECEIVED VIA EMAIL: The photo was a Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 2004 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. The picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” And I looked and saw a black horse, and he who sat on it holding a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wage, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wage. And do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation 6:5-6)
UK Stores Stockpile Food Ahead of Truck Strike | politikly.com
The government wants to ensure retailers and suppliers can continue to sell basics such as meat, bread and milk if hauliers bring the country to a halt.
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Third World nations almost certainly will have to succumb to a Global Food Authority in order to eat.
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A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has likely spread to Pakistan from Africa according to reports. If true, that threatens the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab region. The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol production, especially in the USA, Brazil and EU are taking land out of food production at alarming rates. The deadly fungus is being used by Monsanto and the US Government to spread patented GMO seeds.
Posted 4/7/08962 farmers commit suicide in Maharashtra
Posted 10/19/06AFGHANISTAN: Millions face hunger as drought worsens
Posted 10/19/06Aid For 10 Million People In Sudan 'Is Sabotaged'
Posted 6/10/04Biofuels expansion "to raise risk of famine"
Switching more land from food to biofuel production raises the risk of future famines, a conference organised by the Soil Association, the country's leading organic certification body, was told.
Posted 1/29/07China and India warned their water is running out
Posted 1/23/07Dramatic Major 'Meltdown' in Darfur
Posted 11/27/06Echoes of '84 famine as drought then flood hit Ethiopia
Posted 11/17/06Food shortage After crippling Burundi Floods
Posted 2/13/07Food Shortage Brings Suffering in Guinea
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Posted 2/1/07Global Food Supplies at risk from Global Warming
The tests provided projections for maize, rice (pictured), sorghum, soybean and wheat - the world's most important crops in terms of global grain production.
Posted 8/9/06Grain Stockpiles At Lowest For 25 Years
The world’s stockpiles of wheat are at their lowest level in more than a quarter century, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which on Thursday slashed its forecasts for global wheat and corn production. The lower forecasts were largely attributable to the severe drought in Australia, where the forecast for this year’s wheat crop was cut by 8.5m tons to 11m.
Posted 10/16/06Growing demand for biofuels 'could lead to food shortages'
Posted 4/19/07Growing scarcity: Amber waves of grain
Fascinating photo from Steve Quayle!
Posted 4/9/07High Temperatures Leave Five Million Chinese Short Of Water
Posted 3/7/07Hundreds of workers die as India's tea industry suffers crisis
An inquiry into the fading fortunes of tea estates in Jalpaiguri, a remote part of West Bengal state bordering the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, found last week that at least 700 Indian tea workers have died from diseases linked to malnutrition in the last year after 16 estates were closed.
Posted 6/11/07Indonesia Farmers: Floods Destroyed Crops
Farmers living outside Indonesia's flood-hit capital said Monday they were struggling to survive after hundreds of square miles of land were inundated, destroying rice and other recently planted crops.
Posted 2/14/07Kenya 'facing major food crisis'
Posted 6/19/04Millions face famine as crop disease rages
Scientists say millions of people face starvation following an outbreak of a deadly new strain of crop disease which is spreading across the wheat fields of Africa and Asia.
Posted 4/23/07'N Korea urgently needs food aid'
North Korea urgently needs food aid after floods devastated farmland and displaced thousands of people, ... "Large areas of paddies and fields are completely under water, so rice farming looks impossible," he said. "Barren hills caused farm houses to be swept away, leaving people to camp out on elevated land, and they are far short of food and blankets. It's devastating," Mr Kim said.
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Posted 3/23/07Plant Pathologists Fighting Global Disease Threat To Wheat Supply
A highly virulent new race of stem rust known as Ug99 first appeared in Africa in 1999 and has become "a serious and imminent threat to world wheat and barely production," according to a research study by the North American Millers Association and U.S. wheat and barley producers.
Posted 5/11/07Somalia: Food riot leaves 5 dead
"People were waiting for the distribution of the food, but some of them tried to storm and steal the maize and cooking oil, then police opened fire and killed five people including my brother," Abdiqadir Mohamed Ilbir said as he wept. He said his brother was shot and killed by the police.
Posted 6/27/07Southern Africa braces for poor harvests
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Health officials issued a boil-water advisory for the Vancouver-area after a storm stirred up silt in the region's reservoirs and increased the risk of bacteria-borne disease.
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