Record Harvest but Troubles Loom Ahead
GLOBAL - World cereal production is expected to hit a new record this year as high prices boosted plantings under generally favorable weather conditions, FAO said today in the latest...

Food or fuel? The Bioenergy Dilemma
GLOBAL - The cost of grain-based staples–such as tortillas in Mexico, beef noodles in western China, and bread in the United States– has increased around the world.

Rabobank Predicts Strong Growth in Worldwide Food Industry
GLOBE - Demand for the '4 Fs' (i.e. food, feed, fibre and fuel) is set to continue to increase worldwide, predicts Rabobank in its latest report.

Food v. Fuel Debate Worldwide
GLOBAL - The food versus fuel debate is making waves around the world - from the parliaments in Africa to the university campuses of the USA.

Vicious Cycle of High Prices and Global Food Shortage
GLOBE - Soaring food prices could reverse the significant growth in agricultural production recorded by some of the poorest countries in Europe and Central Asia over the past 10 years,...

UN Blames Biofuels for Rising Costs
GLOBE - According to Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, biofuel production is responsible for the global rise in fuel prices.

An Insatiable Global Hunger for Grain
GLOBAL - Wheat is by far the most traded grain as it is so adaptable to many uses, but production for the world market has so far been the privilege of a handful of countries.

Are Biofuels Really a Threat to Global Food Security?
GLOBAL - Biofuels, derived from crops and once a promising alternative to petroleum, have come under increasing fire in the face of a global food shortage that has spurred chaos in...

Farm Subsidies in the Midst of Inflation
GLOBAL - Peter Schwardmann (AllAfrica) writes that there has been a 75% rise in the World Bank's index of food prices between September of 2006 and the start of 2008.

Fighting the Existing Food Crisis
GLOBAL - The opening words of the lead Editorial in this week's Lancet: "While customers at restaurants in New York City will soon be able to count the calories of their meals in an...

UN: Modern Agriculture a Waste of Resources
GLOBAL - A recent UN report states that although modern agricultural practices are highly productive, they tend to exhaust land and water resources. This has thereby led to vulnerability...

Special report: Climate change and food prices
GLOBAL - Is the climate to blame for the deadly combination of soaring prices and decline in supply - two factors threatening food security?

Soaring Price of Food 'Leads to Riots'
GLOBAL - Rising food prices threaten economic stability and could trigger riots, Gordon Brown has been warned.

Asia: Alternatives Amid Soaring Rice Prices
HONG KONG - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo convened a food summit with top officials and farm experts on Friday, looking for ways to prevent the emerging rice crisis from...

Time Bashes Ethanol, Calls It 'Clean Energy Scam'
GLOBAL - Magazine takes environmentalist position against corn fuel, says consequences of biofuel craze such as rain forest destruction 'could haunt the planet for generations,' writes...