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• CSR Manager.org - Food Security Remains a Top Priority for African Development

  Food security remains an important development issue for Africa, with many countries facing high food costs and periodic food shortages due to climate change, humanitarian crises, conflict, displaced populations, poor agricultural practices and a high dependency on imported food stuffs. For this reason, food security remains a top priority on the continent’s development agenda, as outlined in the quarterly Africa Food Security Brief published recently by the Chief Economist Complex of the African Development Bank.

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• CSR Manager.org - Singapore’s growing Role in Asian Food Security

  Singapore’s approach to food security is set to undergo a fundamental rethink — from being a passive food-importer to a more active contributor to the regional and global food system. A mental map of a multi-pronged strategy, spearheaded by research and development, is emerging on Singapore’s food security front that could turn old limitations into new strengths. Certain realities clearly define food security planning: Singapore is not an agricultural country, has little land to grow its own food, and is almost totally dependent on food imports. As a food importer Singapore is perpetually subject to the vagaries of external forces when it comes to feeding its own people. This picture may soon change.

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• Smartening Up Tomorrow’s Agriculture

  By Tobias Menne , Bayer Group 05:27 PM, July 13, 2016 Food security ranks among the pressing challenges of a steadily

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• Food Security for Africa: an urgent global Challenge

  On September 14, 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published its estimates concerning the number of people suffering from hunger in 2010: 925 million. This figure was below the 1,020 billion in 2009, but it was higher than the number reached before the 2008 global food crisis. The 2010 figure corresponded to 13.5% of the world population, while the 2015 objective (millennium development goal (MDG) number 1) was 8%. The FAO concluded that we were still far from achieving MDG 1, that is, halving the number of hungry people worldwide by 2015.

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• On the Role of Human Development in the Arab Spring

  so leading explanations for the Arab Spring have related to food insecurity, unemployment, and frustrated youth.

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• CSR Manager.org - Business and Climate Change

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called climate change “the defining challenge of our time” – for good reasons. Climate change is the most pressing and disruptive issue the world is facing today. It affects every aspect of society, from energy resources and water sustainability to public health, food security, and even human security.

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• Resource Efficiency

  value with less input." European Commission Core Issues Food Security Spotlight Food Crisis By Editorial Team The recent

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• CSR Manager.org - Bangladesh: Climate Change Threatens Livelihood

  Threatens Livelihood Climate change continues to threaten food security in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the

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• Water Shortages May Escalate Conflict Between Countries

  Food security is the focus of this year’s World Water Week, the leading freshwater meeting currently underway in Stockholm. Because both food and energy are closely tied to internationally shared water resources, an important part of the conversation will be about turning competing demands for transboundary water resources into cooperation and sharing of benefits

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• CSR Manager.org - 'Ocean-grabbing' as serious a threat as ‘land-grabbing’ – UN expert on right to food

  The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, warned of the threat of ‘ocean-grabbing’ to food security, and urged world governments and international bodies to halt the depletion of fish stocks, and take urgent steps to protect, sustain, and share the benefits of fisheries and marine environments.

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