Many households have been hit so hard by rising food prices that they are skipping meals, a new survey reported in the Sun newspaper shows.
Barclays and children’s charity NCH released a joint survey yesterday… Continue reading
According to the New York Times, Financial Times, and others, hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.Given… Continue reading
World Bank President Robert Zoellick has called for reform of biofuel policies in rich countries, urging them to grow more food to feed the hungry.
He was speaking at the… Continue reading
The UK will continue to expand the use of biofuels in petrol and diesel for transport, despite the findings of an independent review which found today that the controversial… Continue reading
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.
The… Continue reading
World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the… Continue reading
A report from Merrill Lynch & Co has revealed that the government has effectively given Gulf Arab oil producers the go ahead to change their dollar-pegged… Continue reading
Families have been warned to expect a sharp fall in living standards as the Bank of England grapples with soaring inflation.
The Bank’s governor, Mervyn King, said a dramatic increase in energy bills… Continue reading
There is a time for food, and a time for ethical appraisals. This was the case even before Bertolt Brecht gave life to that expression in Die Driegroschen Oper. The time for a… Continue reading
May 02
U.N.’s World Food Program Cried Poverty While Sitting on Cash Stockpile of More Than $1.22 Billion
Just weeks before it announced the onset of a global food crisis and the urgent need for donors to provide at least $775 million in additional funding, the World Food… Continue reading
Apr 24
The End of Affordable Food
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 spectre of starving people in Haiti… Continue reading
Apr 21
Stockpile Food
I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of… Continue reading
Rocketing global food prices are causing acute problems of hunger and malnutrition in poor countries and have put back the fight against poverty by seven years, the World Bank said yesterday.
Robert Zoellick, the Bank’s president… Continue reading
Apr 05
The coming food catastrophe
“This is the new face of hunger,” said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN’s World Food Programme, launching an appeal for an extra $500 million so it could continue supplying food aid… Continue reading
Aug 29
The looming food crisis
Land that was once used to grow food is increasingly being turned over to biofuels. This may help us to fight global warming - but it is driving up food prices throughout the world and… Continue reading