Japan promised African leaders Wednesday that it would step up aid and investment and use its expertise to help double rice production to ease the burden of soaring food prices.
JAPAN will lease Australia’s prime research ship to study whale food, sparking warnings Australia is bolstering the case for whaling.
Yokohama, 05/29 - Japan vowed Wednesday to use its technological prowess to help African nations double rice production within a decade and ease the burden of soaring food prices.
YOKOHAMA, Japan: The head of the UN World Food Programme appealed on Thursday for a lifting of restrictions on agricultural exports, saying they were exacerbating the global price crisis.
(AP:YOKOHAMA, Japan) The president of the World Bank called Thursday for governments of developed nations to not impose export restrictions or tariffs on food that could be funneled to relief agencies or countries facing severe food shortages.
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) - The head of the UN World Food Programme appealed Thursday for a lifting of restrictions on agricultural exports, saying they were exacerbating the global price crisis.
Source: Reuters By Yoko Kubota and Yoko Nishikawa YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 29 (Reuters) - Urgent action is needed to help the poor who are devastated by soaring food prices, but Africa, with sufficient help, faces an …
TOKYO, May 29 - Japan’s retail sales rose less than expected in April from a year earlier, suggesting that higher energy and food prices are putting consumers off their shopping.
May 29 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s retail sales rose at the slowest pace in nine months as higher prices for food and energy prompted consumers to spend less on clothing.
May 29 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s retail sales rose at the slowest pace in nine months as higher prices for food and energy gave consumers less to spend on clothing.
