LONDON: International climate talks in Bonn, Germany (April 9-11) tried to salvage December's failed Copenhagen summit. Meanwhile, some rich countries are imposing their own carbon limitations anyway and threatening to curb imports from poor (...)
How to feed nine billion people by 2050 has been a big worry since food prices rose drastically in 2007-08. But any fight against hunger must deal with the one billion people who lack food right now.
Calls for "new thinking and a lot more money (...)
The eighteenth annual World Water Day offers the same old problems and rejects the practical solutions. On March 22 one billion people will, as usual, spend the day without clean water and a third of humanity without adequate sanitation. As usual, (...)
US Department of Agriculture figures reveal that a quarter of US cereals grown in 2009 went to biofuel, turning cheap food into expensive fuel. This pushes up food prices and damages the environment yet President Obama promised "continued investment (...)
Rehash old fears and update them with the alarmist topic du jour - that s the recipe for the United Nations Population Fund s annual report this Wednesday dedicated to climate change. Its State of World Population 2009 correctly points out that poor (...)
When food does not cross borders, hunger does. Politicians and experts meet in Rome this week at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to address "How to Feed the World in 2050, building up to World Food Day on Friday. But famine looms right now (...)
After treading the red carpet at the Oscars in Los Angeles in February, the child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire are on the streets: Mumbai authorities have demolished their flimsy shelters only three months after promising them real houses. (...)
Rising food prices could be a blessing in disguise, argue Caroline Boin and Alec van Gelder
Rising food prices have caused street protests from Mexico to India to Senegal. But this could be a blessing in disguise if it makes governments eliminate (...)