Tag: food crisis
Gates, Soros and UN are demanding billions in aid
agriculture in Africa The consequences of climate change are hurting agriculture on the continent. (Photo: dpa) New York, Dusseldorf The UN General Assembly is facing major discussions. The poor countries…
Famines: The world food system is not working
Sudanese farmer with grain Dependence on wheat is high worldwide. (Photo: dpa) Berlin When Martin Frick, head of the UN World Food Program (WFP) in Germany, talks about the future…
Federal government pushes Getreidebrücke forward with guarantees and subsidies
Berlin The German agricultural traders are calling for concerted action by politicians and business to organize grain exports from the Ukraine at the beginning of the harvest season and to…
Hunger from Putin’s grain war: Powerful nations are preparing
Global trends Handelsblatt author Thomas Hanke analyzes interesting data and trends from all over the world in the column. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) The world is beginning to take notice that…
Steffi Lemke: Environment Minister wants to ban biofuel
biofuel The Ministry of the Environment is fundamentally critical of the climate protection effect of biofuel. This was “strongly doubted”. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) wants…
Grain cultivation: Farmers want to increase production
Grain harvest in Baden-Württemberg Debate about wheat cultivation on ecological priority areas. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The global shortage of wheat, triggered by the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, is…
Svenja Schulze warns of a global hunger crisis
Berlin Exorbitant food prices, wheat distribution problems, droughts and plagues of locusts – the development policy challenges facing Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) seem almost impossible to overcome. On a trip…