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UN Report Predicts Food Prices Will Rise in 2011

(Nov. 17) -- Between wildfires, floods and drought, it's been a bad year for grain production worldwide. Now, a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization predicts a bleak year for people around the world struggling with hunger. The report predicts that food prices will rise due to unfavorable...

Reducing Maternal Deaths Is Top Goal of UN Summit

NEW YORK (Sept. 20) -- Ticktock, ticktock ... an inexorable beat began at 9 this morning in the heart of Times Square, a grim reminder of the hundreds of thousands of women who die each year from complications of childbirth. The digital billboard clock, set up by Amnesty International, will tick for three days while...

Russian Drought Spurs Worldwide Food Price Hikes

(Sept. 1) -- Severe drought in Russia has sent world food prices 5 percent higher in recent months, according to a new report by the United Nations, and though they remain well below the record levels reached during the 2007-08 world food crisis, the higher prices have already fueled deadly riots in Mozambique. Today...

Background on fao

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (Italian: Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

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