In an effort to feed 170 million people in a rapidly growing economy, Bangladeshi farmers rely on the widespread use of chemical fertilizers to boost production, leaving the country’s soil heavily degraded as a result. The country requires around 38 million tons of food grain. Some farmers are now switching to
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Market lords, much more than a war, behind world’s food crisis
While grain exports continue to regularly flow to world’s markets since the July 2022 Turkey-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers shipments from both countries, food prices are still skyrocketing everywhere. How come? The handiest answer by establishment politicians and media is that it’s all about the
Russian dispute over drones threaten to escalate world food crisis
Stop war, stop politics with food: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday once again called for stopping the Russia-Ukraine war blaming the conflict for disrupting the global food supplies leading to increased cost of food. She made the fervent appeal in a keynote speech at the five-day World Food Forum 2022 at the headquarters of the Food
Record hunger of 345m greets global food day: WFP calls for urgent action to fix root causes
Refugees most vulnerable in ongoing food insecurity crisis: UN
Representatives from UN agencies and several countries called for more substantive action to support refugees and internally displaced people amid the ongoing global food crisis. Co-hosted by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations, a panel discussion held
Knocking on famine’s door: UN food chief wants action now
Food manipulators won’t be spared: Razzaque
Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque has said that those who create artificial food crisis must be brought under the law. The minister was talking to journalists before inaugurating a training workshop on the best use of high-yielding seeds at Mymensingh Town Hall on Monday. He said that in the market economy the
345 million people marching toward starvation: UN
The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing "a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude," with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation - and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, told the
The World Really Is Getting Better
Some days or decades, everything in the world seems to be getting worse. Global warming is unstoppable. Political polarization is tearing us apart. Women’s rights are backsliding in Afghanistan and, American liberals might argue, in the U.S. as well. European energy costs are skyrocketing, China is heading into recession, Ukraine