Rural poverty and food security news

Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy - 16 November 2011 - Global food funds necessary, but not enough

VOA News - 17 October 2011 - UN World Food Security Committee Meets in Rome

MercoPress - 17 October 2011 - Every day a billion people go to sleep feeling hungry, recalls UN on Food Day

Hindustan Times - 12 October 2011 - Food security: State included in roots, tuber crops drive (India)

Nigeria Guardian - 22 August 2011 - Absence of infrastructure inimical to food security, says expert

CNN – 20 July 2011 - U.N. declares famine in Somalia; makes urgent appeal to save lives

Nigeria Guardian – 28 June 2011 - Women groups benefit from IFAD- assisted agricolture programme in Adamawa

News Blaze – 22 June 2011 - Current Food Price Increase Pushes 44 Million People Into Poverty

The Guardian - Poverty matters blog – 1 June 2011 - Global food crisis: Smallholder agriculture can be good for the poor and for the planet - blogpost by Elwyn Grainger-Jones

The Vincentian – 3 June 2011 - WINFA looking at food security

Daily Independent (Nigeria) - 24 May 2011 - Yobe govt pledges support for Fadama project

IPS News – 6 May 2011 - Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty

Nigeria Punch – 8 May 2011 - Food price increases: ‘FG is implementing containment strategies’

Word Press – 3 May 2011 - Secretary Clinton to Deliver Remarks on the State of Global Food Security in Rome

Weekly Cutting Edge (Pakistan) – 10 April 2011 - Food security concerns rising the world over

Morning Bulletin – 5 April 2011 -  Security of food is on agenda

Get Farming (Australia) – 1 April 2011 - A Food Secure World

AlertNet – 29 March 2011 - Mapping NGO food projects amid rocketing prices

Guardian News (Nigeria) – 1 March 2011 - IFAD tasks Nigeria on food price volatility

Straits Times – 22 February 2011 - Why the world spotlight on food matters to S'pore (blog)

Xinhua - 17 February 2011 - Preventing another food crisis (by Shenggen Fan, IFPRI)

CNTV - 6 February 2011 - Global food prices hit record high in January: FAO

OurWorld 2.0 - 26 January 2011 - A food price crisis, if not in name

Gulf News – 6 January 2010 - Poor to pay for higher food costs