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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicFood crisis

Topic: Food crisis

‘Avoid parties, grand weddings’– Lal Bahadur Shastri on India’s 1964 food shortage

In his broadcast to the nation on 19 October 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri addressed India’s dependence on food imports, calling austerity the need of the hour.

In Pakistan, free flour is the new killer—long queues, stampedes, deaths

Over the last year, the cost of wheat flour in Pakistan increased by a whopping 120%, coinciding with inflation which touched an all-time high of 46.7%.

EU eases some sanctions on Russian assets to tackle global food crisis, open Ukraine port blockade

The European Union loosening sanctions means that banks can now process payments to Russian state-owned entities engaged in the trade of food and fertilisers.

Seed, fertiliser scarcity pushes Sri Lanka into food crisis as farmers abandon fields

Rice production in the last harvest season had already plunged 40% to 50%. Now, crop yields could shrink as much as 50% this year.

Nations sanctioning Russia must know concern over global hunger not unfounded, defuse panic

The problem, of course, is that this war is between two countries which are among the world’s largest food exporters.

Zelenskyy blames Russia for food crisis, says Ukraine looking for ‘safe corridor’ to export grains

While virtually addressing the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, the Ukraine President accused Moscow of blocking Ukrainian ports and depriving the world of food grains.

G-7 sees Modi’s ban on wheat exports as an obstacle to combating rising food prices

India could play a key role in averting a downward spiral of food protectionism at this week’s WTO conference in Geneva.

Sri Lanka faces tough choice between food security and debt repayments

Hoarding is now prevalent on a global scale, with top producers stopping exports and perpetuating a cycle of inflation and hunger.

Feeding world must take backseat, Modi govt should deal with India’s ‘chapati’ crisis first

German agriculture minister Cem Ozdemir said imposing export restrictions or closing markets would worsen the crisis. Actually, the opposite might be true.

India ‘unlikely’ to revoke wheat export ban despite pressure. Now US to debate issue at UNSC

India is willing to consider requests to send wheat on a case-to-case basis, and maintains other countries have taken more restrictive measures in the face of food security issues.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.