Skip to main content

Home/ food crops vs. export crops/ Group items tagged drought

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Arabica Robusta

IPS - Angola Slow on Drought Response as People Die of Hunger | Inter Press Service - 0 views

www.ipsnews.net/...sponse-as-people-die-of-hunger

angola news drought famine

shared by Arabica Robusta on 29 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Although agriculture only accounts for a tiny part of oil-rich Angola’s GDP, it is the main source of employment in the country where millions live hand-to-mouth on rain-dependent subsistence farming. This is the second consecutive year that Angola has been affected by drought after several seasons of heavy rainfall and flooding.
  • Opposition parties have also been critical of the government’s response, claiming that communities who support the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) were receiving priority treatment and that local party branches and officials were promoting themselves through aid distribution.
  • Francisco Filomeno Vieira Lopes, secretary general of Bloco Democrático, a small party that has no seats in parliament but is vocal on social issues, told IPS that the government was too preoccupied with attacking those who were trying to publicise the problem, rather than actually helping those in need.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Agriculture Minister Afonso Pedro Canga travelled to FAO headquarters in Rome earlier this month to collect the award for Angola meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Arabica Robusta

Op-Ed Contributor - The Rich Get Hungrier - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...28sen.html

australia capabilities crisis economics food sen

shared by Arabica Robusta on 31 May 08 - Cached
  • Arabica Robusta on 31 May 08
     
    The recent rise in food prices has largely been caused by temporary problems like drought in Australia, Ukraine and elsewhere. Though the need for huge rescue operations is urgent, the present acute crisis will eventually end. But underlying it is a basic problem that will only intensify unless we recognize it and try to remedy it.
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20▼ items per page