G8 calls for investment in agriculture as way to fight world hunger

October 14th, 2009 UN: World hunger on the rise for a decadeROME — Declining aid and investment in agriculture caused a steady increase in world hunger for more than a decade before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the hungry to a record 1 billion, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

October 14th, 2009 UN: Record 1 billion go hungryNAIROBI, Kenya — Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.

October 12th, 2009 UN: Agriculture investment must increase 5-foldROME — Agricultural investment in developing countries will have to increase more than fivefold to ensure that by 2050 the world has enough to eat, a U.N. food agency said Monday.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming the death of agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug as the end of an era, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday described him as one with a towering intellect who helped millions of people escape from a life of hunger and deprivation. With the passing away of Norman Borlaug an era has ended, in which he spearheaded a scientific revolution in agriculture, the prime minister said in a message.

September 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Renowned American agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, who played a major role in developing disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries, has died at the age of 95.

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 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The drizzle stopped and the sun came out as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at an agricultural research institute Sunday to watch some paddy sowing and speak on Indo-US farm cooperation - from under the shade of a mulberry tree. "Look at the co-incidence - Hillary under a mulberry," quipped a senior scientist at the National Agricultural Science Centre (NASC) on Pusa Road, watching Clinton standing along with Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar under the dense shade of a dark green mulberry tree at the institute campus.

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 10th, 2009 Obama: Wealthy countries should help fight povertyL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama says wealthy countries have a moral obligation to fight poverty and hunger around the world. He says there are national security reasons for these nations to help boost food supplies, too.

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 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 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 UN: World hunger reaches the 1 billion people markROME — A U.N. food agency says a record 1.02 billion people are hungry across the world, or one-sixth of humanity.

April 22nd, 2009 Darfur genocide inspires actress hunger strikeLOS ANGELES — Mia Farrow plans to begin a hunger strike next week in solidarity with the people of Darfur. The 64-year-old actress and humanitarian says she will begin a "fast of only water" on Monday "as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch innocent men, women and children needlessly die of starvation, thirst and disease." Farrow was moved to begin the hunger strike after the Sudanese government expelled international aid agencies from the country last month.