The escalating crisis of soaring food prices and food insecurity is the result of a development model based on large-scale, export-orientated agriculture tied to international competition, self interest and stock market speculation. With at least 923 million people going hungry each day despite a huge surplus of food production, a reorientation towards local self-sufficiency founded upon the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ is urgently required.
From meat, poultry and milk to potatoes, onions and leafy greens, everything consumed on the world's dining tables is feeling the heat from climate change, scientists say.
The epidemic of biopiracy is an assault on our living heritage of biodiversity and cumulative innovation embodied in the traditional knowledge of agriculture and medicine.
19th November 07 - Abid Aslam, Inter Press Service
More than one in 10 people in the United States go hungry, according to new official figures that suggest government food programmes are falling short in the world's wealthiest country.
Poor developing countries will be forced to cut food consumption and risk an increase in malnutrition after an “alarming” increase in their agricultural commodities bills, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation warned on Wednesday.
In its biannual Food Outlook report the FAO predicted that food prices, particularly cereals, would remain high in 2008 having hit record levels this year.
A long-held basic human right, the right to adequate food for the world's 854 million hungry people, is being threatened once again -- this time by the conversion of wheat, sugar, palm oil and maize into agricultural fuel.
EU plans to increase the use of biofuels could spell disaster for some of the world’s poorest people warns international agency, Oxfam in a new briefing.