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
NEW YORK - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store. In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poultry and even eggs, cheese and milk are
GENEVA (Reuters) - Several countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) criticized the new U.S. farm bill on Monday for raising farm support when the WTO is trying to reach a deal to cut agricultural subsidies.
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
Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one.
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'.
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
The chart also indicated The World is $54.31 trillion in debt. The CIA Fact Book states that "this figure is the sum total of all countries' external debt, both public and private." So who exactly is this "external" entity that the World is indebted to?
Our nation's agricultural policy should be part of the solution to global warming, not an obstacle. Unfortunately, the Farm Bill now under conference contains taxpayer handouts to Big Coal, including a measure that would enable the Rural Utilities
Farmworkers who pick tomatoes for the fast food industry are among this country's most exploited workers: subpoverty wages, no right to form unions, no benefits of any kind. Burger King can join other fast food chains in making a huge difference
