Weather-derivatives contracts are meant to protect small farmers in Africa from food shortages and famines caused by drought.
This could lead to food shortages and higher food prices, as well as encouraging deforestation of areas to make way for biofuel crops.
In recent years, it has often been hard to keep culinary traditions alive in the Gaza Strip because of food shortages and power cuts.
Many of the most recent arrivals in the camp told Doctors Without Borders they had left Mali because of food shortages and other problems.
But unlike their agricultural brethren, they do not result in food shortages and those wood chips could be mixed in with coal before it is combusted.
"Although Zimbabwe is not facing armed conflict, humanitarian threats such as food shortages and outbreak of diseases such as cholera pose a significant challenge, " said Agostinho Zacarias, U.N.
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Set in "Some place calling itself Rome, " but filmed, very tellingly, in battle-scarred Serbia and Montenegro, "Coriolanus" imagines a modern state rocked by food shortages and border disputes.
Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime.
It also reflects food shortages before and after World War II.
However, this may be a sign of waning domestic support in the face of military operations and food shortages, she says, and there is no evidence so far that it will lead to attacks by Al-Shabaab on targets overseas.
Many countries in the Mediterranean basin could face a future of significant food and water shortages as climate change bites and deserts spread.
Many researchers correlate food prices and shortages with the Arab Spring: hungry people get mad.
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There are reports of food shortages, hoarding and a drying up of investment.
Other passengers reported long lines waiting for food, water shortages and widespread boredom.
The nation had endured much less severe food shortages than Britain and emerged from the war as the world's great power.
Countries like Niger, Somalia and Bangladesh -- destabilized by drought and food shortages -- have some of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, according to the report, and Halls says climate change will only make matters worse.
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now a net importer of food and facing acute shortages of most essentials such as fuel, electricity and medical drugs.
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She said the poet and playwright's role as a grain hoarder during food shortages in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries were something that people had largely forgotten about him.
Among Venezuela's problems are crumbling infrastructure, persistent shortages of food and medicine, and double-digit inflation.
There were reported shortages of food and water as well as serious equipment problems.
The collapse of the country's agriculture has aggravated food shortages in neighbouring Malawi and Zambia.
Most predictions in the field verge on the apocalyptic, warning of extreme shortages of food and widespread hunger in a rapidly expanding population.
Indur Goklany, a policy analyst in the Department of Interior, has documented similar sleights of hand when it comes to predictions of food and water shortages due to global warming.
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But a Chinese foreign-ministry spokesman said this week that he had not heard of any change in China's policy of helping North Korea cope with its shortages of food and energy.
Worsening shortages of food and medicine in both eastern and western Libya mean that a conflict prolonged and intensified by outside intervention could create a nationwide humanitarian disaster, whose effects will spill over into those countries that may have the best chance of a successful political transition to more representative government.
Similarly, the Arab Spring seems to have been triggered by another series of radical changes in society, from technology and iPhones to food shortages to the beginnings of the rise of a middle class in these societies, that have coalesced into widespread revolt and dissatisfaction with ruling governments.
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Passengers reported long lines for food, shortages of fresh water and widespread boredom.
Under his rule, once-prosperous Zimbabwe has suffered an economic crisis with routine shortages of food, electricity and foreign currency.
By 2003, Zimbabwe was facing shortages of food, fuel and foreign currency.
The blockades have led to shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies.
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