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 Food prices are up all over the world. Is the current food crisis a temporary problem or a sign of something more serious?
The Food Crisis and Gender
Katherine Coon | October 31, 2008
The global food crisis hits poor rural communities the hardest — and women in those communities the hardest of all.
Flawed Biofuels Policies
Karen Hansen-Kuhn | October 30, 2008
The U.S. approach to biofuels offers false solutions to real problems, writes in .
The Perils of the Coming Sugar Economy
Hope Shand | October 10, 2008
It may sound sweet and clean. But the "sugar economy" will be the catalyst for a corporate grab on all plant matter as well as the destruction of biodiversity on a massive scale, writes Hope Shand in
Managing Food Prices
Thomas Lines | If the commodities trade were internationally managed, prices would become more stable and future food crises could be avoided.
Food Aid Emergency
Sophia Murphy | August 7, 2008
The food price crisis has made demand more acute and supplies even scarcer, but it hasn't really changed the underlying problems with food aid as a response to hunger.
The Food Crisis and Global Institutions
Alexandra Spieldoch | August 5, 2008
Can global institutions and governments, in the midst of a food crisis, finally get it right?
Mad Cows, Mad People
Gavan McCormack | July 10, 2008
What's the relationship between the beef crisis in South Korea, the humanitarian crisis in North Korea, and the global food crisis?
The Commodities Bubble
Sameer Dossani | June 28, 2008
The economics behind the food crisis.
Mother Earth's Triple Whammy
John Feffer | June 18, 2008
if you think the current global food crisis is something new, just ask the North Koreans.
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