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The food system is broken. In Birmingham and around the world, vast amounts of food are wasted while many go hungry. One-third of all greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture. The number of food-related disease is on the rise. Though World ...
May 20, 2012 at 10:33 | Source: Everything Alabama Blog
From eccentric tastes to odd eating habits, we all have our culinary quirks. But some individuals and towns take their passion for food to new and strange extremes. Below are five of the most off-the-wall food festivals ever conceived: As the ...
May 14, 2012 at 18:40 | Source: FOX News
Washington — President Obama announced a plan to accelerate investments in developing world agriculture to meet rising food demands and improve nutrition, calling the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition a moral, economic and security imperative.
May 19, 2012 at 14:09 | Source: AllAfrica.com
People around the world show remarkable similarity in their daily eating habits: meals start off healthy in the morning, but get progressively worse throughout the day – until by nightfall we're deep into junk food territory. Just take a look ...
May 22, 2012 at 14:34 | Source: NPR News
The UN World Food Programme launched the distribution of cash vouchers for the purchase of food in Senegal's Ziguinchor region, for people hit by poor harvests and high food prices. The first vouchers went to people in the town of Bignona ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: YAHOO!
This report focuses on Lindt & Sprüngli's core strategic directions to reignite growth following the negative impacts of the economic downturn on the high-priced-positioned portfolio. Strong focus on premium chocolate remained the company's key strategy ...
May 21, 2012 at 01:13 | Source: Transworld News
Hershey has intensified its international market expansion, although the process remains slow paced and purely organic. It largely targeted the Asia Pacific and European markets, while delivering high sales growth in Latin American markets. The company ...
May 16, 2012 at 09:33 | Source: Transworld News
Any world traveler heading to Lebanon should be sure to check out the food.  It's not for nothing that Lebanese cuisine is among the most varied and savory in the world. The most well-known of Lebanese food is the mezze.  This is a beautiful spread of ...
May 14, 2012 at 23:48 | Source: Examiner
The Global Agriculture & Food Security Program, known as GAFSP, stands out for its early results in improving food security for the world's poor. On the eve of the G8 Summit, food security is again taking center stage, and for good reason. Almost 1 billion ...
May 18, 2012 at 02:21 | Source: Reliefweb.int
The 20th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition will take place in Milan, Italy, from 18 to 22 June 2012. This annual event constitutes one of the world’s leading science-to-science, business-to-business and science-to-industry fora for ...
May 23, 2012 at 16:42 | Source: Environmental News Network