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World Food Crisis

Food Without Fossil Fuels Now

Invited Keynote Lecture, 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Organic Agriculture in Croatia, Organic Agriculture - Contribution to Sustainable Ecosystem, 2-6 April 2008, Dubrovnik University. Dubrovnik, Croatia

Exposed: Europes GM Hype in Times of Food and Fuel Crisis

Pro-GM brigade at large in the food and fuel crisis The pro-GM brigade has been losing no time in exploiting the current global food and fuel crisis and the high price of animal feed to promote GM as the solution in the...

Rising Prices Reinforce Need for Food Security Policies

The new key to food security is self-sufficiency, not trade, and policies are needed to expand local food production and invigorate the agricultural sector particularly in developing countries. Martin Khor

GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse

JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade...

Food crisis or food prices crisis?

"The main difference today is in the parting of extremes, or the deepening polarization between alternative paradigms, narratives and solutions. On one side of the court stand the impassioned NGOs and hardened campaigners who...

Food Crisis Worsens

Zimbabwe: Food Crisis Worsens Posted to the web 2 October 2008 Sebastien Berger Harare THE hills around Garanyemba, deep in Matabeleland South province, are littered with stunning rock formations, stark testaments to the power...

World Bank Supports Nepal's Responses to Rising Food Prices

Donderdag 2 oktober 2008 | World Bank ] WASHINGTON, September 30, 2008 - More help is on the way for millions of Nepalis living in food insecure areas where problems have been compounded by rising food prices, high fuel prices,...

Africa: New 'Green Revolution' Needed to Combat Hunger in Africa, UN Relief Chief Says

A new Green Revolution is urgently needed in Africa to curb the suffering of the most vulnerable people, according to the top United Nations relief official, who recently saw first-hand how the current dire food crisis is...

Bailout bill defeat could cause painful recession

The economy has endured hurricanes, soaring fuel and food prices, falling home values and a growing credit crisis. The Fed, which has been providing billions in short-term loans to help banks overcome credit stresses,...

Kenya: New Food Crisis

Posted to the web 30 September 2008 Geofrey Kamadi Nairobi Rina Awinja, her 5-month-old baby, Stanley Lumumba, and her husband, George Oyange, are HIV-positive. The young family depends on Lea Toto, an organisation that...