The internal Cuban economy suffers from a weakness such that the slightest price increase for a pound of steak or butter is enough to disrupt our fragile commercial framework. A few centavos added to the price of a food sends the thermometer of daily anxiety upward.
AP | By IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 09.04.2011
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip -- Maher Khoudari boasts that his Gaza grocery has a wide assortment of chocolates for sale – even some you couldn't fin...
Posted 08.27.2011
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...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
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Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011
In the coming food shortages, the American Midwest will become the most crucial provider of food grains to the world, building on an already leading, but barely heralded position of leadership.
Scientific American | Lester R. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse....
The Miami Herald | Tyler Bridges | Posted 05.25.2011
Desiree Pereira couldn't decide among the squash she was squeezing at a food stall on Tuesday. Pereira expressed no uncertainty, however, when asked ...
DAILY NATION | Posted 05.25.2011
Kenya has made an international appeal for food aid to help alleviate famine affecting 10 million people. The Government requires Sh 32 billion to mee...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011
A private university in Japan, through government grants and in collaboration with an affiliated commercial entity, completely cultured near-extinct bluefin tuna -- a first for the world.
Washington Times | Patrice Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to dr...
Peter Clothier | Posted 11.17.2011
It's started. The recent BBC World News report on the startling rise in basic food costs throughout the world is alarming new evidence of the trouble we're in as a species.
Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 05.25.2011
Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.17.2012