STWR - Share The World's Resources

Unlike the crisis of 1970s stagflation that signalled the end for the Keynesian social-democratic model, the food crisis of 2008 could be marked down in history for setting in motion an opposite trend, writes Adam W. Parsons.

The inability of world leaders to face up to the root causes or policy contradictions of a food crisis is nothing new, but the resultant crisis of faith in neoliberal economic orthodoxy is a sign that the world direction is changing course, writes Adam W. Parsons.

A humourous and acerbic perspective on the food crisis - and the tragedy following in its wake for the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, by Maurice Dufour.

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world, says George Monbiot. So why do we treat them with contempt?

The crisis of rising food prices are leading people to question the fundamental rationale of pushing for more free trade.  What we need now is food sovereignty – the kind that is defined and driven by small farmers and fisherfolk themselves.

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.