IS INDIA FACING A FOOD CRISIS?
BBC News – Is India, the world’s second most populous nation, facing a food crisis? This question is vexing policy makers and analysts alike even as creeping inflation – around 7% now – is sending jitters through the Congress party-led ruling coalition. To be sure, India has not yet experienced riots over rising food prices that have hit other countries like Zimbabwe or Argentina. But what is worrying everybody is that the current rise in inflation is driven by high food prices Full Article UNCHECKED CLIMATE CHANGE = 125 MILLION REFUGEES IN SOUTH ASIA: Greenpeace – ‘Hope for the best, plan for the worst’, is the mantra of emergency planners everywhere. But, for 125 million people living in the low lying areas of South Asia, when it comes to climate change there is no plan that will adequately address the worst consequences. A new Greenpeace report warns that left unchecked climate change could lead to global temperature increases of between 4-5C, unleashing a barrage of impacts that wi
