Monthly Archives: May 2008

Better diets in China, India behind food crisis: US Blames it on India China Again!!!!

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Washington: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice considers the apparent improvement in the diets of peoples in China and India and the resultant export caps among the reasons for the skyrocketing prices of grain worldwide. She also believes a successful … Continue reading →

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Green Revolution: An Answer to Food Crisis

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

The Green Revolution is the increase in food production stemming from the improved strains of wheat, rice, maize and other cereals in the 1960s developed by Dr Norman Borlaug and others under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation and other … Continue reading →

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UN Chief: Food Crisis Is Now Emergency

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A rapidly escalating global food crisis has reached emergency proportions and threatens to wipe out seven years of progress in the fight against poverty, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday. He called for short-term emergency measures in … Continue reading →

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