Take our user survey and make your voice heard.
world

FAO: Rising prices, food insecurity add to ranks of hungry

7 Comments
By ELAINE KURTENBACH

The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.

© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.


7 Comments
Login to comment

And the developed nations of the world spend literally trillions upon trillions of $$$$ selling weapons to those same countries, and others.

3 ( +6 / -3 )

Over those years, progress toward alleviating hunger and malnutrition has stalled and then backslid as growing numbers of people lost the wherewithal to get enough to eat.

Imagine how many problems could be solved if megacorp stakeholders made just a tiny bit less profits.

8 ( +9 / -1 )

poverty and war are a business for US

1 ( +5 / -4 )

yes.capitalism at its best just be short and exact.

1 ( +3 / -2 )

The imperialist powers of Europe and North America are on the one hand, buying up 90% of Ukrainian grain and still doing all they can to block exports of Russian food and fertilizer to poorer regions of the world.

-5 ( +1 / -6 )

The imperialist powers of Europe and North America are on the one hand, buying up 90% of Ukrainian grain

China has been the biggest destination of Ukrainian grain

"Black Sea Grain Initiative Joint Coordination Centre"

https://www.un.org/en/black-sea-grain-initiative/vessel-movements

"Imperialist powers of Europe" would be true only if ya consider Turkey as part of imperialist Europe - because the 3 top European destinations are Spain, Turkey, and Italy (in that order)

The other big destinations outside Europe are Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Libya, Israel, India, and South Korea

While North America doesn't even get in the list

2 ( +2 / -0 )

Plenty of food on this planet but lack of investment in logistics

0 ( +1 / -1 )

Login to leave a comment

Facebook users

Use your Facebook account to login or register with JapanToday. By doing so, you will also receive an email inviting you to receive our news alerts.

Facebook Connect

Login with your JapanToday account

User registration

Articles, Offers & Useful Resources

A mix of what's trending on our other sites