Global Food Crisis

You Can't Eat Potential

Glenn Denning | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green


Glenn Denning

The global epicenter of chronic hunger is Africa. The good news is that hunger can be ended within a few years with targeted investments based on our current knowledge.

UN World Food Program Faces 'Dire Shortage'

BBC News | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


The UN food agency says it is facing critical funding shortages that have forced it to cut aid deliveries to millions of people facing starvation....

Ug99 Fungus: Wheat Stem Rust Threatens 80 Percent Of World's Wheat

LA Times | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green


The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with moti...

Restoring Dignity to Zimbabwe

Louis Belanger | Posted 06.29.2009 | World


Louis Belanger

While there is much talk about physical suffering like hunger and illness, we often overlook the psychological impact of poverty, particularly on the elderly and people with disabilities.

Food Crisis: Global Warming's Biggest Threat

Seattle Times | Sandi Doughton | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green


When searing temperatures blasted Western Europe in 2003, more than 50,000 people died and harvests of wheat, animal fodder and fruit fell by up to a ...

Financial Meltdown Escalates Global Food Crisis

Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha and Stephanie McCrummen | Posted 11.26.2008 | Business


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 ...

Food Fight - A "Vanguard" Special Report

Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green


Current TV’s “Vanguard”

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"Fantasy Dessert" Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green


Frances Moore Lappe

We're facing the biggest human rights crisis of my lifetime: The U.K.'s ActionAid estimates that current price spikes may have doubled the number of hungry and food-insecure people to 1.7 billion.

$30 Billion A Year To Solve Global Food Crisis, UN Says

International Herald Tribune | Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew Martin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business


Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world face the...

The U.S. Farm Bill & the Global Food Crisis

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business


Terra Lawson-Remer

U.S. food "aid" is more a vehicle to dump excess U.S. production than a benefit for hungry populations.

Ethanol Production Forging Costly Link Between Food And Oil

Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business


Ethanol was once touted (and still is by some) as an effective way to slow global climate change, but that effectiveness is increasingly being questio...

Global Food Crisis Worst In A Generation, World's Poor Suffer Most

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business


he globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it...