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File photo of Mekelle, the capital city of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. (Yuzu2020/iStock/Getty Images)

U.N. urges Ethiopia to allow unhindered aid as hunger kills

'Ethiopian children are starving'

By GFM Network News October 6, 2021

Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Ethiopia’s government on Wednesday to allow the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to millions in the country’s north “without hindrance” as U.N. officials report deaths from hunger. During a U.N. Security Council meeting, Guterres urged Ethiopia’s government to allow “unrestricted movement of desperately needed fuel, cash, communications

Workers prepare foodstuffs at a food distribution centre supported by the World Food Program at Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on June 3, 2020. File photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah

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U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

US$400 for a plate of rice and beans?

By GFM Network News March 11, 2021

New York | Reuters — Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago U.N. food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen — she died on Thursday.

The United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in Manhattan. (BWZenith/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

U.N. draws on emergency fund in bid to avert famines

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 18, 2020

United Nations | Reuters — United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock said on Tuesday he would use US$100 million from the world body’s emergency fund to help seven countries try to avert famine fueled by conflict, spiraling economies, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Some $30 million will be spent in Yemen, $15 million each

Tulip fields in the Netherlands. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Markets

African growers threaten Dutch flower power

By GFM Network News June 17, 2016

Aalsmeer, Netherlands | Reuters — The Netherlands is fighting to retain its crown as the world’s top auction house for flowers as growers in Africa and elsewhere increasingly sell directly to buyers. The country grew wealthy selling tulip bulbs in the 17th century during the so-called Dutch Golden Age and remains the second largest agricultural

Dennis and Betty Turner recently returned to Killarney from a trip to  Ethiopia with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Following the donation trail

Betty and Dennis Turner got to see their Foodgrains Bank efforts pay off first hand in Ethiopia

By Jennifer Paige May 11, 2016

A tour through drought-plagued Ethiopia is an experience Betty Turner says she’’ll never forget. “We tried to prepare ourselves for what you read about and what you see on TV but there is really nothing like seeing it first hand,” said Turner. “We asked the local farmers what more we could do and they said,

Livestock, Weather

Floods cause deaths, block food aid in drought-hit Ethiopia

By GFM Network News, Katy Migiro April 26, 2016

Nairobi | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Flash floods in drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia have killed people and livestock and are blocking food aid deliveries to hungry communities, a charity said. Ethiopians have been waiting for the spring rains to replenish water sources and to plant crops after the most severe drought in decades pushed more

News

CFGB launches African drought appeal

There are 24 million people at risk and Canadians invited to help

By Cfgb Release March 17, 2016

With millions of people in southern Africa and Ethiopia facing extreme drought this year, Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) is inviting Canadians to help by making a donation to its African Drought Appeal. “We are reaching out to Canadians and asking them to please give generously,” says CFGB executive director Jim Cornelius. The prolonged drought, which

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred on Jan. 6. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Livestock, Weather

FAO seeks help for drought-ravaged Ethiopia

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 15, 2016

Rome | Reuters — Ethiopia faces its worst drought in decades, leading the United Nations’ food agency to call on Friday for an emergency cash injection of US$50 million to help the country overcome the crisis. Crop production has fallen up to 90 per cent in some regions and failed completely in the country’s east,

Jethro Hamakoko breeds Brahman cattle on a small ranch about an hour outside of the Zambian capital of Lusaka.

International news, Livestock

Zambian herd grows, despite ticks, poachers

While not without challenges, some farmers forced out of Zimbabwe  have found a home ranching in Zambia

By Shannon VanRaes July 9, 2015

Quietly, after the bulk of journalists has moved on to other things, Graham Rae describes the situation as 15 to one. That is 15 poachers and one security guard shot so far. On a still morning near the central Zambian town of Chisamba, it’s hard to imagine, but cattle rustling is a major problem for

Crops, International news

Moving from famine relief to relief from famine

Ethiopia has made solid gains thanks to a co-ordinated attack on the root causes of hunger

By Laura Rance-Unger April 14, 2015

Famine relief was a hit in the 1980s — literally — as pop music stars donated the proceeds of their collaboration on the song “Feed the World” to help feed starving people in Ethiopia. It was a sincere effort that raised millions and was part of a global response by governments and aid and development

Daily Network News

Sustainability disclosure ‘ticket to play’ in emerging global market

Klassen: Feeder market has volatile week

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

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