The United Nations and leading environmentalist Lester Brown are warning of the danger of a major food crisis as world grain reserves are dangerously low, climate is playing havoc with production, and the world is consuming more than it produces. Joh ...
Kaikohe beneficiary Sam Kuha is almost into his fifth week of fasting without food in protest at government ‘stalling policies’ around food grants. Mr Kuha was refused a special needs grant for food and LPG for cooking until he sought mor ...
25 Sept 2012 – The difficulties of people seeking emergency food grants from Work and Income is highlighted by the case of Sam Kuha, who is on hunger strike and smashed the windows of the Kaikohe Work and Income office. Mr Kuha, who is in wheel ...
New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops are drawing attention to the increasing struggle of many New Zealand households to put nutritious food on the table, in a statement The Hunger in our Midst released for Social Justice Week (9-15 September). This week, ...
Media Release from Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Passing on extra vegetables grown in the garden to people in need, and sharing what food we have, were suggestions that students at St Teresa’s School in Karori gave today to help overcome hunger and ...
From Social Watch 16 August 2012 The FAO Food Price Index climbed 6 percent last month, driven by the heatwave and droughts in the United States and extreme weather conditions elsewhere. The price spike wakes up the ghost of a global crisis li ...
From The Guardian 31 August 2012 The rush of foreign investments in African farmland by “ecologically ignorant” pension groups, sovereign wealth funds and speculators will end in economic disaster and possibly even conflict, some of the w ...
From Alertnet, 30 April 2012 By Kirsty Lewis, UK Met Office At present, close to one billion people suffer from hunger. Experts agree that there is a high risk of climate change affecting food security at the global level, with the most negative impa ...
From Alertnet, 20 August 2012 By Anders Jägerskog SIWI The World Water Week 2012 will focus on food security and the global water situation. To bring some perspectives to that debate Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is launching a repo ...
The New Zealand Herald reports that the expert advisory group of the Children’s Commissioner recommends all low-decile schools offer pupils free food in an immediate effort to tackle child poverty. The proposal is just one recommendation in an ...
From The Guardian, 2 September 2012 by Larry Elliott The last decade saw the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy after the second world war. This summer’s increase in maize, wheat and soya bean prices – the th ...
