Reuters

The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, according to a United Nations report.

Olivier De Schutter

July 22 , 2012

Growing crops for food and fuel together can work but farmers and policymakers must prioritise hungry people and think local

ScienceDaily (July 13, 2012) — Rebuilding global fisheries would make them five times more valuable while improving ecology, according to a new University of British Columbia study, published July 13 in the online journal PLoS ONE.

This image gives the reader some basic information about Future Generations, a human-centered international development organization working to alleviate global poverty.

This map shows the percentage of the population that is undernourished (the World Health Organization's standard of measuring hunger) by country. Sub-Saharan Africa, all of Asia, and Latin America are hunger hotspots, with a minimum of 5% of the population undernourished.

This image shows the root causes of the poverty cycle.

Luisa Massarani

[LONDON] Climate change could reduce the economic value of the services the oceans provide to mankind by almost US$2 trillion a year by 2100, according to a study presented at the Planet Under Pressure conference this week (26–29 March).

Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms

JOANNA M. FOSTER

In 2008 and in 2011, the world was rocked by riots and by revolutions coinciding with spikes in food prices.

OFF Chile’s Pacific coastline, between December and February, divers take to the chilly waters in search of a predatory sea-snail, the loco (Concholepas concholepas). Boiled and daubed in mayonnaise, it is a local favourite. Asian gourmets prefer it stir-fried or as sashimi.