foodcrisis
Two men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be honoured as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates. Cary Fowler, the US special envoy for Global Food Security, and Geoffrey Hawtin, an agricultural scientist from the UK and executive board member at the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will be awarded the annual prize and split a $500,000 (€464,000) award. Secretary of State Antony Blinken lauded the men for their “critical role in preserving crop diversity" at seed banks around the world. They also helped ideate a global s...
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Armed gangs rampaged through two affluent neighbourhoods in Haiti’s capital on Monday, leaving dozens of people dead. Gunmen looted homes in Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise, forcing residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police. Port-au-Price has been gripped by gang violence since the end of February. A photographer with AP, a US news agency, documented at least 12 bodies strewn on the streets of Pétionville, located just below Laboule and Thomassin, which had largely remained unscathed by the outbreak of violence. “Abuse! This is abuse!” cried out one Haitian man w...
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Last year was the hottest on record, and scientists worry this year will be worse. Thunderstorms in Europe destroyed €9.1 billion in assets, while the US also experienced twenty-eight separate weather and climate disasters throughout 2023 costing at least $1bn a piece. Again, the most ever. It’s not hard to see a trend. If we don’t avert an impending climate crisis over the next 26 years, a quarter million more people will die each year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress. Nearly every child on earth — over 2 billion children — will face more frequent heatwaves which put them...
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