Battered by soaring fertiliser prices and rioting rice farmers, the global food industry may also have to deal with a potentially catastrophic future shortage of phosphorus, scientists say. Researchers in Australia, Europe and the United States have given
Relentless rain across the Midwest is cutting into the U.S. corn crop, which will fail to meet export, biofuel and feed needs, the government said Tuesday.
By 1968 the jump in farm productivity was so clear - India, for example, harvested a record wheat crop, as did the Philippines for rice - that William Gaud, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, said the world was witnessing the "m
a few big private investors are starting to make bolder and longer-term bets that the world's need for food will greatly increase -- by buying farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment.
The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly 1 billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export bans.
The Via Campesina believes that in order to protect livelihoods, jobs, people's food security and health, as well as the environment, food production has to remain in the hands of small-scale sustainable farmers and cannot be left under the control of lar
The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today.
Marks & Spencer, the UK retailer, is best known to consumers abroad for its line of clothing. But in the UK M&S is a full-line retailer with an important share of the food sector, including meat. M&S has also invested massively in its Corporate Social
Wal-Mart's warehouse chain Sam's Club became the second retailer in the US to limit bulk purchases of rice this week, citing 'recent supply and demand trends'.
By requiring countries to open up their agriculture market to giant multinational companies, by insisting that countries dismantle their marketing boards and by persuading them to specialize in exportable cash crops such as coffee, cocoa, cotton...
Thousands responded to our plea and sent e-mails to Cal OSHA demanding an investigation--which they did. OSHA's report found farm labor contractor YNT Harvesting in serious violation of several health and safety standards
Developed nations should stop paying agricultural subsidies to encourage biofuel production because the payments are making staple foods more expensive, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.
Southern Poverty Law Center describes the plight of farm workers, especially in the Southeast, were labor laws are scarce and enforcement even scarcer. This is a topic for legal and illegal immigrants alike.
