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• Food Crisis Undermining Development — Leaders Of The Developing World

  Escalating food costs are exacting a heavy toll on the poor countries and this calls for global action to reverse the trend, according to leaders from the developing world. According to the leaders this is seriously threatening and undermining their economic... Posted Sep 25 2008, 12:27 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: headline, Price hikes, food crisis, U.N General Meeting

• ICOUR To Release 2,186 Tonnes Rice

  THE Irrigation Company of Upper Region (ICOUR), will soon release over 2,186 metric tones of paddy rice into the market to ameliorate the current food crisis. The rice has just been harvested from a total of 574 hectares at the Tono Irrigation project... Posted Jun 11 2008, 12:12 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: headline, food crisis, Irrigation Company Upper Region, Vea project

• High food prices here to stay - UN

  Higher food prices may be here to stay as demand from developing countries and production costs rise, says the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It warned that the current spike in global food prices was higher than previous records... Posted May 30 2008, 10:45 AM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: headline, Price hikes, food crisis, FAO report

• Food crisis: Demand for local rice rise

  The demand for locally produced rice has increased lately, due to vigorous promotion of the production and sale of local rice by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and other stakeholders in the rice business. The locally produced rice have been... Posted May 19 2008, 12:15 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: food crisis, Local rice demand

• Food Price Hike Hits Ghana

  Local food prices on the market are on the rise mainly due to increasing demand by consumers as well as shocks brought by the global food shortage. When CITY & BUSINESS GUIDE visited some parts of the Central Business District of Accra such as Makola... Posted May 05 2008, 01:15 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: headline, food crisis, Food Price Hike

• Government urged to preserve land for agriculture

  Togbega Gabusu VI, the Paramount Chief of Gbi Traditional Area, has urged government to initiate a national policy backed by legislation on land use to regulate the putting up of residential and institutional buildings. He explained that this would assist... Posted Apr 29 2008, 01:49 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: food crisis, Togbega Gabusu VI, Gbi, Hohoe

• Ghanaians asked not to grieve over food crisis

  The President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Mr Tony Oteng-Gyasi, has called on Ghanaians not to grieve over rising prices of commodities on the world market because the country has all it takes to reap from the benefits. "This shouldn't... Posted Apr 22 2008, 11:00 AM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: headline, AGI, food crisis, Tony Oteng Gyasi

• Ghana's 'hybrid' rice dilemma

  Take a drive around rural Ghana and large swathes of the country appear green and fertile. So you might then wonder why Ghanaians spend between $200 and $300 a year on imported rice. The current supply of local rice is less than a third of the demand... Posted Apr 17 2008, 02:31 PM by daisy with | with no comments Filed under: headline, Nerica rice, food crisis