Food Waste Denounced by Ministers as Almost 1 Billion Go Hungry
Rudy Ruitenberg
Food waste was denounced by farm ministers and policy makers gathered in Berlin as almost 1 billion people in developing countries go hungry.
Rudy Ruitenberg
Food waste was denounced by farm ministers and policy makers gathered in Berlin as almost 1 billion people in developing countries go hungry.
Ashwin Parulkar
These days, Indian policymakers are debating how to create a vast new food entitlement program. There is talk of poor households struggling to cope with high food prices and malnourishment among their children.
United Nations
The report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability.
Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms
Millennium development goals: Two down, six to go
The United Nations has met two of its eight development goals, well ahead of the 2015 deadline. Six goals are left.
JOANNA M. FOSTER
In 2008 and in 2011, the world was rocked by riots and by revolutions coinciding with spikes in food prices.
THE past four years have seen the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and the biggest food-price increases since the 1970s. That must surely have swollen the ranks of the poor.
Alex Duval Smith
On another beach in a different world, Chinasa Paul would be sipping a soft drink bought by his parents. But if the 15-year-old eats today in Lagos, it will be thanks to tips he receives for lugging crates of drinks up and down Kuramo Beach.
The cassava plant could help African farmers cope with climate change, a scientific report says.
"It's like the Rambo of the food crops," report author Andy Jarvis, of the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture, said.
Peter Grier
Eleven years ago, at the Millennium Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York, the leaders of the world agreed to a plan meant to spur efforts to help the globe's poorest.