1.  Besides a looming food shortage, the growing world population also is consuming natural resources at phenomenal rates.

2.  A National Food Authority official, meanwhile, urged national authorities to send enough rice stocks to the Bicol region to avert a looming food shortage.

3.  A National Food Authority official, meanwhile, urged national authorities to send enough rice stocks to Bicol to avert a looming food shortage.

4.  However, the airlift was again suspended Saturday when Bosnian and Serb machine-gunners targeted two Ukrainian UN transporters, sparking warnings from Janowski of a looming food crisis.

5.  The UN refugee organisation warned Sunday of a looming food crisis in Sarajevo because both air and ground supply routes are either closed or perilously dangerous.

6.  Late Thursday, US Defense Secretary William Cohen warned in Washington of looming food shortages in Albania.