Food Shortage

Water Enough for All?

Carl Safina | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Food Production, Climate Change Refugees, Water Shortage, Nitrogen, Food Shortage, Infant Mortality, Low-Water-Table-in-India, The Green Revolution, Green News
Carl Safina

The Green Revolution was accomplished largely by doubling the amount of irrigated land. Hundreds of millions of wells now reach into the earth like straws in a thick drink on a hot day. But as with many things, we're taking more water than we're getting.

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Famine, Food and the 'F' Word

Robert Walker | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Population, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Hunger, Rice Prices, Famine, Food Crisis, Food, Famine in Somalia, Food Prices, Food Commodities, Global Food Prices, World Food Prices, Food Shortage, World News
Robert Walker

Focus on the famine, but don't overlook the larger food picture. We simply don't know how -- or even whether -- the world can feed a population of 9 billion or higher by mid-century.

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Paul Needham

A Food Bank With Flagging Corporate Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Working Poor, Virginia, Hunger, Food Banks, Patch Road Trip, Food Crisis, Fredericksburg Food Bank, Hunger in America, Fredericksburg Virginia, Food Insecurity, Washington DC, Food Shortage, Feeding America, Fredericksburg, Food Bank, Impact News

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Oya Oliver knows exactly what everything costs, from the price of a box of 100 small Slim Jims -- $14.79 -- to her electric bil...

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11 Million People in Need

Donald Steinberg | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Drought, Usaid, National Security, Somalia, United Nations, World Hunger, Malnutrition, Humanitarian Crisis, Food Shortage, Terrorism, Hunger, Humanitarian Aid, Refugees, Kenya, Food Security, Ethiopia, World News
Donald Steinberg

The sight of families stumbling into the camps after days of exodus through the desert and receiving their first nutritious meals in months is heart-breaking. We will pursue a coordinated, forceful and comprehensive response.

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Joshua Hersh

USAID Chief: Climate Change, Food Prices Spur East Africa Famine

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Famine in East Africa, Usaid, Ethiopia, World Hunger, Terrorism, United Nations, Malnutrition, Humanitarian Aid, Raj Shah, Hunger, Kenya, National Security, Famine, East Africa Famine, Humanitarian Crisis, Food Shortage, Somalia, Climate Change, Rajiv Shah, Refugees, Food Security, World News

The long-suffering nations in the Horn of East Africa are enduring the worst drought conditions in more than half a century, and are at risk of "massi...

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Food Banks Find New Ways To Fight Rising Costs, Including Charging For Produce

Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Kosher Soup Kitchen, Food Shortages, Food Pantries, Food Banks, Rising Food Costs, Food Costs, Soup Kitchen, Soup Kitchens, Food Shortage, Food Pantry, Food Waste, Food Bank, Good News, Food News

Food banks around the country are implementing new policies to combat rising food costs and food shortages as more people are struggling to get enough...

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French Minister: Food Price Stabilization Agreement A 'Tour de Force'

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: David Nabarro, Bruno Le Maire, High Food Prices, Britain, Australia, Inflation, France, French Agriculture Minister, World Bank, United Nations, Food Shortage, Food Prices, g20, Business News

PARIS — The largest economies in the world agreed Thursday to a series of measures to stabilize world food prices after recent fluctuations caus...

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Food Costs Highest Since 1990: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Report (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prices of Food@Y:World, Food and Argriculture, Food Riots, Starvation, Food Price Index, Famine, Food Prices, United Nations, Slidepollajax, Food Shortage, Un, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World News

Up for the sixth month in a row and fueled by surging sugar prices and rises in cereals and oils, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food...

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Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists

Matt Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Matt Ridley, Apocalypse, Peak Oil, Books, Optimism, Food Shortage, Reading, Global Warming, The Rational Optimist, Global Disaster, Books News
Matt Ridley

When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults told me so.

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Africa's Seat at the Table

President Abdoulaye Wade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G-20 Summit, Governance, President Barack Obama, Malaria, Reform, G-20, Accra Speech, World Bank, g20, Senegal, Food Shortage, Robert Zoellick, Senegal President, United Nations General Assembly, Aids, President Abdoulaye Wade, World News
President Abdoulaye Wade

Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.

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Copenhagen -- You Can't Talk Climate Without Talking Water

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Drought, Desertification, Soil Erosion, Water, Climate Change, Food Shortage, Copenhagen, Green News
John DeCock

The effects of climate change are all about water. By failing to tie these effects together by this single, cogent thread, delegates to Copenhagen are failing those they represent.

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Guatemala Declares Hunger Crisis

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guatemala Hunger, Guatemala Hunger Problem, Guatemala Food Shortage, Hunger in Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala Food Crisis, Guatemala Hunger Crisis, Food Shortage, Latin America, World News

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a "state of public calamity" to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the country....

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Is Technology The Problem Or The Answer To Our Food Production Woes?

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Supply, Food Technology, Technology, United Kingdom, Food Shortage, Food Politics, Food, Green News

The world's food production needs to double by 2050 to feed the world's growing population. But over this period, climate change, reduced access to w...

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Chavez Reign Threatened By Food Shortages, Inflation

The Miami Herald | Tyler Bridges | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Inflation, Food Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis, Food, Food Shortage, Food Shortages, Caracas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Chavez, World News

Desiree Pereira couldn't decide among the squash she was squeezing at a food stall on Tuesday. Pereira expressed no uncertainty, however, when asked ...

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Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bananas, United Fruit, Rainforests, Bananas Dying, Johann Hari Bananas, Food Shortage, Food, Banana, Genetically Modified Food, Green News
Johann Hari

Bananas are dying. Soon -- in 5, 10 or 30 years -- the yellow creamy fruit as we know it will not exist.

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Financial Meltdown Escalates Global Food Crisis

Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha and Stephanie McCrummen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Global Food Crisis, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Shortage, Business News

As shock waves from the credit crisis began to spread around the world last month, China scrambled to protect itself. Among the most extreme measures ...

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Biofuels: Good or Bad?

Vinod Khosla | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cellulosic Ethanol, Biofuels, Cellulosic Biofuels, Cellulosic Fuel, Food Shortage, Food Prices, Green News
Vinod Khosla

Discussing biofuels is like discussing drugs: society recognizes the difference between aspirin and cocaine and we should also be cognizant of differences in biofuels.

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Floods Force Corn Prices Up, Up, Up

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa Floods, Iowa Flooding, Midwest Flooding, Midwest Floods, Corn Prices, Food Shortage, Midwest Flooding Farms, Flooded Farms, Business News

NEW YORK — Corn prices reached another record Monday, closing in on $8 a bushel, as devastating Midwest floods raised fears of a sharply smaller...

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BioFuel Backlash: Mexico's Poor Riot Over Tortilla Shortage

National Geographic News | Lorne Matalon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biofuels, Food Crisis, Mexico, Tortilla Shortage, Biofuel as Villain, Food Shortage, Green News

Tortilla maker Leticia Balino gathers a pile of the flatbreads in her shop in México City on January 10, 2007. The skyrocketing cost of corn--and th...

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Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases

NBC 11 San Francisco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Food Prices, Bay Area Food Shortage, Rice Prices, Food Crisis, Food Staples, Food Prices, Food Shortage, Bay Area Rice, Rice Shortage, Business News

The price of a food staple -- rice -- is rising significantly, NBC11 reported. The price of rice has increased dramatically in recent weeks due to cr...

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Is This The End Of Cheap Food?

Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Food Prices, World Food Prices, Commodity Prices, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Cheap Food, Food Shortage, Hunger, Business News

A sharp spike in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other staples has sparked riots in Mexico and Egypt, marches by hungry children in Yemen and the spe...

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