The battle between environmental conservation and business development continues in Alaska where voters sent in ballots on Tuesday October 4th to decide whether to prevent a mine from being built near the headwaters of Bristol Bay – one of the world’s premier salmon fisheries, according to the Associated …
14.5% of American households were food insecure for at least some time in 2010, according to an annual study released by the United States Department of Agriculture.
This is essentially unchanged from 2008 and 2009, but is higher than 2007 when 11.1% of …
Last month, the Senate voted 73-27 to end a $6 billion per year tax credit to the ethanol industry as part of an amendment to Bill S. 782, also known as the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011. This vote was largely symbolic however, as …
Inflation continues to rise in China, with pork the latest culprit in increasing already high food prices.
Over half of the meat consumption in China is pork, and China produces and consumes more than half of the world’s pigs. This means that when pork prices go …
From time to time, the Global Food Security Blog will call upon experts with an informed viewpoint on topics in global food security to contribute guest posts to our blog. The first of our guest bloggers is Dr. Augustine Uzo Mokwunye, a development strategy consultant …
Aquaculture, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is “the fastest growing food production system in the world.” It accounts for nearly 50 percent of the world’s food fish, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and more than
What’s the best way to aid the hungry? Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spend their time trying to answer this question, and they wrote about their findings, as well as the …
Foreign Policy magazine has come out with their “food issue,” in which authors discuss how food is a driver of world politics. While the authors discussed food’s role in the recent protests in the Middle East, and well as the intersection of hunger and poverty …
Inflation has risen 3.2% over the last year in the U.S., mostly because of increased food and gas prices. This is the biggest 12 month increase since October 2008. The number comes from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the most widely used measure of …
Kenyans protested against high food and oil prices last week, demanding policies to address the rapidly increasing cost of living. “I am here to demonstrate because things have gone high, things like maize flour, sugar and kerosene,” said one protester.
The price of maize flour, a …
Cassava is the newest addition to the biofuel line-up, joining others such as corn, palm oil, and sugar, and has doubled in price because of its new role, according to The New York Times.
Most of this increase was caused by increase in export of cassava …
Will Schanbacher holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Claremont Graduate University. His research and teaching interests include social ethics, globalization and poverty, religious ethics, and liberation theologies. His recent book, The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty offers …
Food is in short supply in the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), where factions are fighting over the disputed presidential election of November, 2010. Incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step down even though the United Nations, the African Union, the United States and …
Radioactive iodine and cesium was found in spinach and milk as well as other food products in the region of the Fukushima nuclear power plants on Saturday.
The World Health Organization has called the situation serious, and the Japanese government is taking precautions, …
As part of its “Room for Debate” series, The New York Times convened a panel of experts to discuss the causes and possible solutions to currently high global food prices, in particular, whether the world is producing enough food. The panelists pointed out that some …
