Indonesia profits from Taiwan e-learning scheme Indonesians are benefiting from a Taiwanese e-learning scheme that aims to tackle the digital divide in the developing world. Read More
The Forgotten World Water Crisis The recent World Food Summit provided a forum for active debate about the role of high oil prices, biofuels, changing consumption patterns and erratic weather in driving up the prices of basic foods. But oddly, participants paid less attention to the alarming decline in the availability of water over the last few decades. Read More
High-Level Conference on World Food Security
Securing world food security in light of the impact of climate change may be one of the biggest challenges we face in this century. More than 860 million people in the world today suffer from hunger. Of those, about 830 million live in developing countries, the very countries expected to be most affected by climate change. Read More
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 August 2008 )
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