No food shall be grown that we do not own....or....the mutant seeds for Mesopotamia

One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under "freedom" and "democracy," would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal.

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Help the poor lift yields to fight food price rises

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Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?

The biofuel debate is electrifying the UN food price crisis summit in Rome, pitting nations against each other and risking transforming bioenergy - once hailed as the ultimate green fuel - into the villain of the piece, the root cause behind global food price spikes.

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Aid Groups Cope with High Food Prices

There are ways to move from charity to self-sufficiency, but the article explores why big players in the existing food-aid system are reluctant to see big changes in how food aid is allocated....

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Not built in a day....

As the High Level meeting on Food security takes place in Rome we are reminded that the Eternal City was not built in a day....but how long and what will it take to rebuild agriculture for small holder farmers?

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World at 'alarming juncture'

Tejo Pramano, an Indonesian Via Campesina activist, said of the summit: "If they really want to respond to the crisis, the only thing is to support the small farmer (instead of) agribusiness ... which doesn't see food as a right of the people. They raise prices as they like.

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International farm research — Why India should step up funding

"CIMMYT, IRRI, ICRISAT, ICARDA — these are acronyms that hardly ring a bell in popular recall.

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Do Trees Grow on Money?

A compelling reminder of the important linkages between forests and climate...but some conservationists may be in for a shock here....accepted dogma: good conservation and good economics go hand in hand...but what if this was not totally true? What if some researchers were cherr …

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The end of abundance: Food panic brings calls for a second 'green revolution'

This is the first of the Need to Feed series....worth reading the history of the Green Revolution of the '60s, the lessons we learned and how we could move forward.

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A 10-point plan for tackling the food crisis

World Bank's president Robert Zoellick present an action plan to deal with the current food crisis....but no mention of political stability as essential to ensure these solutions are sustainable....

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Tulip prices and food crisis

Houston...we have a problem! But the current food price crisis presents us with a rare opportunity to mobilize the resources to address the long-term problems of supply. We need to act before the media and political interest subside....

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Research budgets cut amid food crisis, wheat worry

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Cutting edge science helps the poor overcome soaring food prices

The poorest of the poor, especially those in the drylands, are hardest hit by soaring food prices....but cutting edge scientific innovations can help the poor overcome this problem.

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How to Feed the World

Eight leaders in the fight against hunger offer up food crisis action plans, and long term ideas for how to end famine and bolster farming. During the '90s food prices had declined for so long that it was assumed that investments in agricultural research and development could be …

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