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World""s gene banks need funds to save crop variety

ROME - The world's public seed banks are starved for cash and need an injection from donors of $260 million to protect crop varieties and aid the war on hunger, a leading plant geneticist said yesterday.

Pollution may worsen African droughts

LONDON - Pollution in North America and Europe may have disrupted weather patterns and contributed to severe droughts in poor African countries.

Missouri farm bill stories

St. Joseph casino owner Bill Grace, who owns farm land in Gentry County, received more than $387,000 in federal farm subsidies over a five-year period.

Rome Talks on Hunger Are Belittled by Britain

ROME, June 11 -- Britain criticized a United Nations world food summit meeting here today as a waste of time and said the United Nations agency that called it would have to improve its performance if it was serious about reducing global hunger.

Biotech controversy ensnares US food donations

WASHINGTON - As the United States and Europe fight over the future of genetically modified foods, poor countries needing donations of corn and soybeans are increasingly finding themselves in the backwash of the high-tech argument.

World divided in offensive against hunger

ROME - As battle lines are drawn between the anti-globalisation movement and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the world still lacks a united action plan to win the war on hunger.

U.N. SLAMMED FOR DISTRIBUTING GM CORN IN GUATEMALA

U.N. SLAMMED FOR DISTRIBUTING GM CORN IN GUATEMALA Guatemalan environmental activists slammed the United Nations Tuesday for distributing genetically engineered corn to drought-hit peasants in the Central American nation through its World Food Program (WFP). Environmental group Madre Selva said U.S.

World divided in offensive against hunger

ROME - As battle lines are drawn between the anti-globalisation movement and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the world still lacks a united action plan to win the war on hunger.

Current food crisis affecting 13 million people in Southern Africa

The current food crisis affecting 13 million people in Southern Africa has been described as a complex emergency. Apart from drought, political factors such as land reform in Zimbabwe, poverty, and HIV/AIDS, have all deepened the emergency. A meeting of UN agencies, donors, NGOs and regional governments was held in South Africa last week to examine the crisis.

Gene crops are no answer for world hunger - Bove

ROME - Genetically modified (GM) crops are no cure for world hunger but solely exist to benefit multinational corporations which patent GM seeds, French anti-globalisation campaigner Jose Bove said.