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Taiwan Reveals Wartime Food Stockpiling Strategy Amid Tensions With China
Taiwan's government offered rare details on Tuesday of its wartime food plan, saying it is taking monthly inventories of crucial supplies like rice and making sure they are properly stored across the island in case of a Chinese blockade.
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Sri Lanka Seeks United Nations Help To Tide Over Food Shortages
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking urgent United Nations help to build a stockpile of essential foods, the prime minister's office said Friday, after authorities warned of looming starvation.
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What Wheat Has To Do With PM Modi's Standing As Dependable World Leader
A growing food security threat is set to push Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a conundrum: continue sending wheat to countries hit by dwindling supplies from the war in Ukraine or stockpile food at home to fend off high inflation.
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India Has Enough Food To Feed Poor If There's A Prolonged Shutdown
India will have enough grain stockpiles to feed its poor for at least a year-and-a-half as reserves are likely to further balloon after record harvests in the South Asian nation that has been locked down to check the spread of the coronavirus.
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Middle Class Venezuelans Liquidate Savings To Stockpile Food
Tebie Gonzalez and Ramiro Ramirez still have their sleek apartment, a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroad, and closets full of name brand clothes. But they feel hunger drawing near.
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Philippines Takes Precautions as Volcano Turns Lively
The Philippines has stockpiled food supplies in case of evacuations after a volcano emitted ash and smoke six times in recent weeks, officials said today.
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Let Students Hurl Canned Food at Intruders: Principal
A principal in Alabama wants to stockpile cans of food such as corn and peas in classrooms so that students could hurl them as weapons in a confrontation with a school intruder.
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WTO Impasse Over, India's Food Security Concerns Taken on Board
After months-long deadlock, the World Trade Organisation approved a framework for a global pact to ease customs norms after accepting India's demand to remove constraints on food stockpiling.
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India, US Reach Agreement on Food Stockpiling: 10 Developments
India has reached an agreement with the United States on public stockpiling of food, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday, paving the way for the implementation of a global trade facilitation deal that has been stalled for months.
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Minister Says India, US Reach Agreement on Food Stockpiling, Way Cleared for WTO Deal
India has reached an agreement with the United States on public stockpiling of food, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday, paving the way for the implementation of a global trade facilitation deal that has been stalled for months.
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India Toughs It Out In WTO Food-Stockpiling Row
India defied other countries on Wednesday in a row over food stockpiling that has crippled attempts to reach a global trade agreement, raising doubts that backroom talks can reach a compromise before a Group of 20 summit this month.
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Cyclone Nilofar Due to Land in Gujarat on Friday Morning
Officials in Gujarat were preparing on Monday to evacuate residents and stockpile food as they braced for another "very severe cyclonic storm" due to slam into the west coast on Friday morning.
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India Says WTO Deal Not Dead, Can Sign in September If Concerns Addressed: Report
India is willing to sign a global trade deal, which it has torpedoed, if other World Trade Organization members can agree to its parallel demand for concessions on stockpiling food, senior officials in New Delhi said on Friday.
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India Firm on Stand, WTO Fails to Reach $1 Trillion Deal on Customs Rules
The World Trade Organization failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardise customs rules, which would have been the first global trade reform in two decades but was blocked by India's demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling.
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Different Government Turned Down Modi's Visa, We Will Welcome Him, John Kerry Tells NDTV: Full Transcript
In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Prannoy Roy, US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke about the US government's earlier decision to deny Narendra Modi a visa, the allegations that the BJP was cleared as a potential target of surveillance by the National Security Agency or NSA, and the stand-off with Delhi on a key WTO global customs deal. India h...
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Taiwan Reveals Wartime Food Stockpiling Strategy Amid Tensions With China
Taiwan's government offered rare details on Tuesday of its wartime food plan, saying it is taking monthly inventories of crucial supplies like rice and making sure they are properly stored across the island in case of a Chinese blockade.
-
Sri Lanka Seeks United Nations Help To Tide Over Food Shortages
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking urgent United Nations help to build a stockpile of essential foods, the prime minister's office said Friday, after authorities warned of looming starvation.
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What Wheat Has To Do With PM Modi's Standing As Dependable World Leader
A growing food security threat is set to push Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a conundrum: continue sending wheat to countries hit by dwindling supplies from the war in Ukraine or stockpile food at home to fend off high inflation.
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India Has Enough Food To Feed Poor If There's A Prolonged Shutdown
India will have enough grain stockpiles to feed its poor for at least a year-and-a-half as reserves are likely to further balloon after record harvests in the South Asian nation that has been locked down to check the spread of the coronavirus.
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Middle Class Venezuelans Liquidate Savings To Stockpile Food
Tebie Gonzalez and Ramiro Ramirez still have their sleek apartment, a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroad, and closets full of name brand clothes. But they feel hunger drawing near.
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Philippines Takes Precautions as Volcano Turns Lively
The Philippines has stockpiled food supplies in case of evacuations after a volcano emitted ash and smoke six times in recent weeks, officials said today.
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Let Students Hurl Canned Food at Intruders: Principal
A principal in Alabama wants to stockpile cans of food such as corn and peas in classrooms so that students could hurl them as weapons in a confrontation with a school intruder.
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WTO Impasse Over, India's Food Security Concerns Taken on Board
After months-long deadlock, the World Trade Organisation approved a framework for a global pact to ease customs norms after accepting India's demand to remove constraints on food stockpiling.
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India, US Reach Agreement on Food Stockpiling: 10 Developments
India has reached an agreement with the United States on public stockpiling of food, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday, paving the way for the implementation of a global trade facilitation deal that has been stalled for months.
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Minister Says India, US Reach Agreement on Food Stockpiling, Way Cleared for WTO Deal
India has reached an agreement with the United States on public stockpiling of food, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday, paving the way for the implementation of a global trade facilitation deal that has been stalled for months.
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India Toughs It Out In WTO Food-Stockpiling Row
India defied other countries on Wednesday in a row over food stockpiling that has crippled attempts to reach a global trade agreement, raising doubts that backroom talks can reach a compromise before a Group of 20 summit this month.
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Cyclone Nilofar Due to Land in Gujarat on Friday Morning
Officials in Gujarat were preparing on Monday to evacuate residents and stockpile food as they braced for another "very severe cyclonic storm" due to slam into the west coast on Friday morning.
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India Says WTO Deal Not Dead, Can Sign in September If Concerns Addressed: Report
India is willing to sign a global trade deal, which it has torpedoed, if other World Trade Organization members can agree to its parallel demand for concessions on stockpiling food, senior officials in New Delhi said on Friday.
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India Firm on Stand, WTO Fails to Reach $1 Trillion Deal on Customs Rules
The World Trade Organization failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardise customs rules, which would have been the first global trade reform in two decades but was blocked by India's demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling.
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Different Government Turned Down Modi's Visa, We Will Welcome Him, John Kerry Tells NDTV: Full Transcript
In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Prannoy Roy, US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke about the US government's earlier decision to deny Narendra Modi a visa, the allegations that the BJP was cleared as a potential target of surveillance by the National Security Agency or NSA, and the stand-off with Delhi on a key WTO global customs deal. India h...
