Food
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May 20th 2012
G8 African Alliance for Food Security launched
At the Camp David Summit, G8 and African leaders have launched a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the next phase of their shared commitment to achieving global food... -
May 20th 2012
Per Pinstrup-Anderson on food security in Africa
Per Pinstrup-Anderson, Cornell University professor of food, nutrition and public policy, is the 2001 World Food Prize laureate and an expert on food and global poverty. He comments on the... -
May 20th 2012
National Trust Releases ‘What’s Your Beef?’ Report
One of the biggest global challenges is how to increase food security whilst reducing the environmental impacts of food production. Livestock - like cattle and sheep - produce high levels... -
May 5th 2012
Taming hunger in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has been deemed a population-climate 'hotspot', a place where rapid growth and a changing climate pose grave threats to food security and human well-being. Certainly, the landlocked East African... -
May 4th 2012
Can an African ‘green revolution’ feed the world?
Her bare feet coated with mud, Sabena Gitau trudged down the rain-sodden hillside to her banana plantation, machete in hand. She chose and cut several giant bunches of bananas, which... -
May 3rd 2012
Food fears feed global scramble for land
It was designed to increase production and exports of vegetable oil, a commodity in short supply after World War Two, and foster growth in post-war Britain and Tanganyika. Instead, Britain's... -
May 3rd 2012
‘Green bullet’ innovations aim to feed 9 billion
In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks. In Kenya's Kibera slum, poor... -
May 1st 2012
Ethiopians may go hungry despite economic gains
A report forecasting increasing hunger in parts of Ethiopia in the next few decades makes agonizing reading for a proud people eager to see their nation’s reputation for human misery... -
May 1st 2012
Do biofuels have a sustainable future?
On paper it seems like an ideal solution. Plant crops, turn them into energy and displace some fossil fuels in the process. The reality is not nearly as straightforward. Energy... -
April 26th 2012 | Tags: Food, Population info and analysis, Poverty, Resources
Overambitious Oxfam
In her response to the Royal Society's People and the Planet report, Oxfam's Chief Executive, Barbara Stocker, expresses the view that "The planet has sufficient resources to sustain a population...
