While high food prices can negatively impact the food security of vulnerable households, they can also create opportunities for developing agricultural production and rural ... Read more »
The same banks, hedge funds and financiers whose speculation on the global money markets caused the sub-prime mortgage crisis are thought to be causing food prices to yo-yo and ... Read more »
Food has become subject to one of the sharpest global debates, with rising anxiety about how the world's growing population is going to feed itself. Read more »
The ongoing drought in different parts of Africa may threaten food security, fuelling spread of riots over food price increases, economists have warned. Read more »
Ghana's economy is expected to grow faster than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa in 2011, with a substantial contribution to the expected growth coming from the oil and gas sector. Read more »
Growing concern over access to food is also creating a new geopolitics around food security, with many countries buying up farmland and banning the export of food, experts say. Read more »
National Cereals and Produce Board is negotiating another bulk purchase of its warehouse receipts with World Food Programme (WFP) in a move aimed at opening another outlet for ... Read more »
Some 40 percent of rural households depend on cotton, but prices have been driven down over the last 40 years and huge subsidies to EU and American farmers have ensured that Mali ... Read more »
If wheat and maize production do not rise substantially in 2011, global food security could be uncertain for the next two years, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has ... Read more »
A "forgotten emergency" has left tens of thousands of pastoralists in Djibouti needing food and nutrition assistance as well as longer-term coping mechanisms, according to the UN. Read more »
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