Ban, Clinton urge UN to tackle hunger, ensure global food security

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has urged the government to bring more areas under irrigation and improve farm techniques to ensure food security. Less rainfall during this monsoon has led to a dip of 15 percent in the kharif output, FICCI said in a report.

September 24th, 2009 Bob Dylan to release Christmas album for charityUNITED NATIONS — International royalties from Bob Dylan's first Christmas album will be donated to the World Food Program to feed hungry people around the world, the U.N. agency announced Thursday.

September 9th, 2009 Bill Clinton chides nations over help for HaitiUNITED NATIONS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton reprimanded wealthy nations Wednesday for coughing up just 3 percent so far of the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid they had promised for Haiti.

September 8th, 2009 Guatemala food-starved due to weather, economyGUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of public calamity" late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families. "This will help us access resources from the international community that are generously offered for this type of situations and to mobilize national resources more rapidly," Colom said in a statement.

July 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Praising India's rich knowledge in agriculture, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday said India is a key player in helping the US achieve global food security and end hunger. President Obama and I had a signature issue - food security and ending hunger.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Over a billion people in the world are suffering from hunger and poverty and the global economic crisis has plunged nearly 100 million into extreme poverty. This is threatening to jeopardise the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), leading economies and institutions have acknowledged here.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA, Italy — World leaders say they want to provide $20 billion over the next three years to increase food production in developing countries and help the poor feed themselves. The new amount is a $5 billion increase for an initiative that marks a shift in the global fight against hunger.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Progress made in earlier years to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) in the fields of health, education, sanitation and women empowerment in India and South Asia was endangered by global economic and food crises, the United Nations said Tuesday. "More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the MDGs, major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crisis," the UN's MDG report said.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The heads of government who are meeting this week for the G8 Summit in Italy need to find $23 billion a year to halve hunger by 2015, according to the latest calculations by development agency ActionAid. "G8 is failing to help over one billion hungry people.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The global financial crisis may leave over a billion people hungry every day this year, says a new estimate by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). According to FAO, a United Nations organisation that leads international efforts to defeat hunger, the number of hungry people globally will rise from 915 million in 2008 to 1.02 billion in 2009.

June 19th, 2009 World hunger reaches the 1 billion people markROME — More than a billion people — a sixth of the world's population — are now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a U.N. agency said Friday.

June 19th, 2009 ROME - Some 1.02 billion people are likely to go hungry in 2009, a UN agency said Friday, blaming the "historic" high figure on the global economic crisis. In 2008, the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) revised its estimate of hungry people from 963 million to 915 million, due to a better-than-expected global food supply.

June 1st, 2009 Letter carriers food drive sets recordWASHINGTON — The annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive collected a record 73.4 million pounds of food this year despite the weak economy. The National Association of Letter Carriers conducted the annual drive May 9, picking up donated items as they walked their mail routes.

May 5th, 2009 Food drive aims to Stamp Out HungerWASHINGTON — The annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive by the nation's postal carriers will be held Saturday. Thousands of letter carriers across the country will collect food for delivery to local food banks and pantries for distribution to those who need the help.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The chief ministers of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir Thursday said the industry should play more 'proactive' role and join in the government's efforts to tackle the global economic slowdown, which could threaten millions of jobs in the country. Speaking at the 81st annual general meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) here, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the industry should 'help the government's efforts to ensure that the current economic crisis did not lead to loss of employment in the country'.