Article: Argentine transport strike provokes new food shortages

Article: Argentine transport strike provokes new food ...
AP Worldstream;  June 13, 2008 ;     697 words ...Argentina once again faced food shortages Friday due to highway blockages ... daily newspaper Clarin. The bread industry has begun to ration wheat among ... to a rise in bread prices, Bread Industry Federation President Ruben Salvio ...

Article: Food Shortages and International Agricultural ...
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... production and consumption. Current food shortages, both chronic and acute, are concentrated ... disasters have generated recurring food shortages and need for food aid. Three elements ... are likely to be the key to solving food shortages in Africa: rural/agricultural economic ...

Article: The worst is over; Niger.(Food shortages ease ...
The Economist (US);  August 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... dreadful problems remain THE severe food shortages in Niger are now easing slightly after ... beyond this immediate crisis as well. Food shortages have affected some areas in other countries ... Oxfam, 2.2m people have suffered food shortages in Mali, 700,000 in Mauritania and ...

Article: Food Shortages Occur in Southern Africa: WFP
Xinhua News Agency;  April 26, 2002 ;     402 words ... ... were struggling to survive because of food shortages, the United Nations World Food Program ... available here, the UN agency said the food shortages in the southern African region were ... problems in Zimbabwe did play a rolein food shortages. In Malawi and Zambia, the food ...

Article: Gulf war poses threat to Africa; Say food shortages ...
Chicago Defender;  March 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Say food shortages would devastate continent A war in ... plunge millions of people experiencing food shortages in Southern Africa into possible ... million people are beset by severe food shortages in southern Africa and a similar ...

Article: Sub-Saharan Africa crop prospects mixed, says FAO report; 23 ...
M2 Presswire;  December 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... says FAO report; 23 countries face food shortages, others expect bumper harvests(C ... Saharan Africa can expect bumper crops, food shortages are forecast in 23 countries throughout ... country breakdown of crop prospects and food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa, including ...

Article: Food shortages grip Africa again, so how can the ...
AP Worldstream;  February 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... residents and civil servants during food shortages often left many in the majority rural ... still periodically suffer critical food shortages. The World Food Program says poor ... while crop failures in the east bring food shortages every four to five years that usually ...