Monday, September 14, 2009

World Watch: Hunger pangs

* U.S.: Rest in peace Norman Borlaug; the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and father of the "green revolution" in agriculture died Saturday at the age of 95.

* Pakistan: On a slightly related note, at least fourteen people died in a stampede while trying to obtain giveaways of free flour.

* China: China filed a case with the World Trade Organization against U.S. trade penalties on Chinese tires.

* Zimbabwe: The European Union will continue sanctions against Zimbabwe due to human rights violations and a lack of political progress.

Image- The Telegraph (“Borlaug, then visiting professor at Texas A&M University looking over some sorghum tests, Oct. 30, 1996, in one of A&M's teaching greenhouses, in College Station, Texas.”)
Online Sources- Guardian UK, BBC News, MSNBC, CNN

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