WB grants Liberia emergency loan to address food crisis Posted by admin on June 22, 2008 under Investment and Business WASHINGTON, May 29 (Xinhua) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive

SEOUL, June 11, 2008 (AFP) - North Korea is lavishing money on an Olympic-size swimming pool and on renovating its capital while people grapple with a growing food crisis, a web newspaper run by defectors said Wednesday. The Seoul-based Daily NK ...

Personal Finance Daily: The moral and investment consequences of spiking food prices May 6th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed You can look at the current food crisis worldwide and wonder

DAKAR, Senegal— Senegal's president has urged the U.N. to dismantle its Food and Agriculture Organization, calling it an ineffective money-eater that failed to help avert the global food crisis. The Rome-based organization known as FAO is led by a ...

Calling for a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the food crisis, Mr de Schutter also said he wanted to find ways to limit the impact of speculative investments in food commodities like wheat, which had further driven up prices ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The Malaysian government will delay nonessential public projects and use the money instead to build up food stockpiles amid a global food crisis, the prime minister said Saturday. If measures are not taken now ``it will ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday laid out a detailed request for $70 billion to partially fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while providing more aid to tackle an unfolding global food crisis. The president's request ...

I recently posted three posts addressing the current worldwide food crisis and its cause. For reference, here is Part1, Part 2 and Part 3. I warned in those posts, that Governments will intervene and come up with more idiotic regulation to “combat” the crisis. Here the Mail & Gaurdian reports that t ...