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Increase in Food Prices has driven more than 44 Million People into Poverty – World Bank

Posted on February 16th, 2011 in agricultural research india, Agriculture News, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Finance Ministers, food price hike, Food Price Watch, Food Security Program, food shortages, Global Agriculture, Global Food Crisis Response Program, Global Food Security Crisis, gricultural trade india, India Shares, poverty food prices, Robert B Zoellick, World bank in India

world bank food pricesRising food prices have driven an estimated 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June as food costs continue to rise to near 2008 levels, according to new World Bank Group numbers released ahead of the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Paris. “Global food prices are rising [...]
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Agriculture and Food Industry To Grow To $280B In The Next 10 Years – News Digest

Posted on July 14th, 2010 in Agribusiness, Agribusiness India, Agriculture News, Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance, BSFL, Financial Inclusion, Food Processing India, India Shares, Microfinance Network, Nabard, Reserve Bank of India, Urban Infrastructure, Y V Reddy

‘Agri & Food Industry To Grow To $280B In The Next 10 Years’ At the VCCircle ICICI bank Investment Summit in Mumbai, nearly 200 participants- drawn from the global investment community sported huge levels of confidence and promise on the fast growing agri & food industry. But amidst this confidence, an equal amount of concern [...]

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Agriculture and Food Industry To Grow To $280B In The Next 10 Years – News Digest

Posted on July 14th, 2010 in Agribusiness, Agribusiness India, Agriculture News, Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance, BSFL, Financial Inclusion, Food Processing India, India Shares, Nabard, Reserve Bank of India

‘Agri & Food Industry To Grow To $280B In The Next 10 Years’ At the VCCircle ICICI bank Investment Summit in Mumbai, nearly 200 participants- drawn from the global investment community sported huge levels of confidence and promise on the fast growing agri & food industry. But amidst this confidence, an equal amount of concern [...]

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Sickle and the Superwoman -The rise of women in Rural India

Posted on September 15th, 2009 in Agricultural Communitites, Agriculture Employment, Agriculture News, Self Help Groups, Stree Shakti, Women in Agriculture, Women in Rural India

With men gone to the cities for jobs, women in villages are taking charge of agriculture and much more

In Greek mythology, a tribe of women called the Amazons inhabited the island of Themyscira, a world without men. They lived in 1200 B.C. and were immortalised in Homer’s Iliad as the Antianeira — ‘they who fight [...]

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