...Partnership for the 21st Century, told The Associated Press.Africa, with a burgeoning population and debilitating food shortages, is losing 50 million tons a year of cassava to the disease, he said.In Uganda, a new strain of the virus identified...

...thousands of passengers were disabled for days. Passengers say they endured terrible conditions on board, including food shortages, raw sewage running in corridors and tent cities for sleeping on deck.Tugs slowly towed the ship into port in Mobile...

...good work that was being done, the challenges were also laid out for us to ponder. Some food pantries experience food shortages at the end of the month. Sometimes the variety of food available is slim (lots of peanut butter). Often, well-meaning...

...more than cash from their jobs. Working at Subway, Park said he's learned the laws of supply and demand, and how food shortages affect prices. "It's helped introduce me to the business world," Parks said. "I think running my own business...

...they finish school. Illiteracy among women is still a whopping 67 percent, women are typically the first victims of food shortage (one in three Yemenis suffers from severe malnutrition, according to the United Nations), and many have difficult...

...hundreds of air carriers. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman dismisses the likelihood that Y2K will lead to widespread food shortages. That's because only one-third of U.S. farmers rely on computer systems, and the computers that are used...

...extreme drought in Russia, China and elsewhere; and profiteering in the commodities markets. The result is a world food shortage. One other factor: the worldwide financial collapse of 2008-2009. Western governments are retrenching. One result...

...But the state oil company is not reinvesting in upkeep, and production has fallen. Price controls have created food shortages. Chavez's dictates have driven out foreign and domestic investment. The proposed constitutional change has increased...

...aren't at their natural limit, then some other problem is harming them, Palumbi said. And that has to do with a food shortage and global warming, researchers theorize. The gray whale relies on massive numbers of small crustaceans that live...

...discontent over Latin America's highest inflation rates - estimated at more than 30 percent - electricity blackouts, food shortages and massive government corruption. Seventy percent of Venezuelans think the country is heading in the wrong direction...