Famine News

President Barack Obama wants the United States, the world's largest provider of food aid, to focus on agricultural development in the countries it helps support, rather than having them remain recipients.

Brown spores on wheat head showing the effects of the deadly fungus that caused the new strain of stem rust dieases that is decimating wheat plantations in eastern Africa, as seen in a file picture.

The global send-off for Michael Jackson was not just a goodbye. The lavish tributes may have also planted the seeds for the next goal in the King of Popa s career: rehabilitating his image for posterity.

Up to 35 people are feared to have starved to death across the country but Relief and Disaster Preparedness Minister Tarsis Kabwegyere said yesterday that there was no crisis.

As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to famine and food deficits.

Robert L. Wick, a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, checks a Hadley potato crop for late blight, the same blight that caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.

Enlarge Image Remnant. Toba today comprises a caldera lake, a newly arising cone , and a pip-squeak of a volcanic progeny named Pusukbukit .

The disease that caused the 1840s Irish Potato Famine now threatens Pennsylvania's home-gardening explosion, and a plant-disease expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says hobbyists must work with commercial growers to protect the state's tomato and potato crops.

There was nothing to betray the feverish activity of North Korea's nuclear weapons scientists as our ancient Soviet-era Ilyushin-62 lumbered over emerald green paddy fields to the heart of the hermit state.

OTTAWA a ' The damaging effects of climate change on hundreds of millions of the world's poor a ' hunger, lack of water, forced migration a ' is the single greatest threat to humanity this century, says a major new report by Oxfam.

"He knew in 1965 that Vietnam was not winnable, and he didn't tell the president.

Uganda news round-up: Soroti among the regions facing acute food shortages; government moves to ban FGM and LRA rebel leader Kony could face trial in Uganda Katine farmer Judith Obote.

The globe's richest powerhouses must get serious about how First World pollution is spreading disease and hunger in the poorest countries, says a new report.

The future of farming in B.C. is not looking promising and local food could become as scarce as hen's teeth.

Ohio's farmers and vegetable gardeners are urged to be on guard against a disease that has the potential to destroy tomato and potato crops.

A strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s is on the loose in Rhode Island and is damaging potato and tomato crops.

A Somali-born photographer traces his people's emigration in a sensitive new show.

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

An article titled No Gourmets in Gaza was posted on June 16, 2009 in Word of Mouth blog of Guardian.

The authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have urged the international community to come to its aid to avert severe food shortages and hunger due to a prolonged drought in the region.