Andrea Lunt
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 2011 (IPS) – In an era of mass consumption in the West, the developing world is entering its second major hunger crisis in three years, with new figures from the World Bank showing food price hikes have forced 44 million people into economic hardship since last June.
More than one billion people, a sixth of the world s population, now face chronic hunger and the situation is likely to worsen this year, with experts such as David Nabarro, coordinator of the U.N. Secretary-General s High- Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis, warning food prices are on an upward trend .
Somewhere in the region of two billion households are earning less than two dollars per day and spending somewhere around three quarters of their income…
Some 60 major U.S. food retailers have already pledged not to sell GE salmon. Credit: Kevin Galens/cc by 2.0
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 2014 (IPS) – Officials in Panama have fined the local facility of a U.S. biotechnology company for a series of permitting and regulatory failures around a pioneering attempt to create genetically modified salmon.
The experiments are being carried out by researchers for AquaBounty Technologies, which currently has an application with the U.S. government to sell genetically modified (GM) salmon filets in this country. If regulators approve that application, AquaBounty’s salmon would be the first genetically modified meat sold for human consumpti…