Food Policy

We've Run Into A Wall'

Lennart Bage, President, IFAD

Publication Date: 
02/06/2008
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Crops, Food Prices, Food Supply, Climate Change, IPCC, Farmers, FAO
Agriculture

Food outlook: global market analysis

All agricultural commodities covered in this report are of critical importance to global food and feed markets. They constitute much of the world's food consumption, generate income to farmers and represent the largest portion of food import expenditures across the world. The analysis in the report puts in perspective market developments in recent months with a view to providing some insights into how the outlook might unfold for the commodities covered during the coming months.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2008
FAO
Tags:
Food Crops, Food Prices, Food Supply, FAO, Global
Forests

Tropical forests axed in favour of palm oil

Indonesia and Malaysia have long denied that their tropical forests are being burned to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations. It seems they've been lying through their teeth. Between 1990 and 2005 palm plantations rocketed by 1.87 million hectares in Malaysia and by more than 3 million hectares in Indonesia.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2008
New Scientist
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Tags:
Land Use, Palm Oil, Tropical Forests, Deforestation, FAO, Indonesia, Malaysia
Food Policy

UN report calls for measures to address food crisis

In anticipation of a global summit on the food crisis, the United Nations called on world leaders on Wednesday to agree to urgent measures to ease demand for grains and alleviate high food prices.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2008
Andrew Martin
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Prices, Farmers, Subsidies, UN, FAO
Food Policy

Asias Other Crisis

A devastating disaster hits a longstanding Asian dictatorship. The crisis is compounded by failed economic policies and conflicts with neighbors. The world stands ready to help, but the regime dithers and aid goes undelivered. Even information on the catastrophe is scarce thanks to a media blackout, government propaganda and denial.

Publication Date: 
26/05/2008
Stephan Haggard; Marcus Noland
Newsweek (New York)
Tags:
Food Supply, Famine, UN, FAO, North Korea, World Food Programme (WFP)
Food Policy

Poverty of policy

The current food crisis has been largely policy-driven, which is probably good news because it means that policies can also reverse the process.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2008
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Food Prices, Food Supply, Poverty, FAO, Egypt, Guinea, Morocco, Senegal, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Haiti, Mexico, India, Food Security, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Food Policy

Spectre of hunger

Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the United Nations

Publication Date: 
23/05/2008
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Rice, Food Prices, Food Supply, Global Warming, Poverty, UN, FAO, World Bank, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, India, World Food Programme (WFP)
Food Policy

Plateful of woes

Averting a full-blown global food crisis calls for long-term steps

Publication Date: 
19/05/2008
Puja Mehra, Neelu Nanwani
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Food Prices, Food Aid, UN, FAO, World Bank, Egypt, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, United States Of America (US), Brazil
Food Policy

In Its Own Maize

Blame your biofuel fixation, not India and China, Bush is told

LOGIC and empirical facts do not necessarily form a part of United States President George W. Bush's assertions. Five years ago, he went to war against Iraq to unearth weapons of mass destruction that weren't there. And now, in 2008, he blames India's burgeoning middle classes for the northward

Publication Date: 
13/05/2008
Ashish Kumar Sen
Outlook (New Delhi)
Tags:
Wheat, Maize, Soyabean, Food Prices, Biofuel, FAO, China, United States Of America (US), India
Energy

Women farmers face eviction in biofuels boom

The image of biofuels is rapidly tarnishing. Already under fire for displacing food production and tropical forests, they are now charged with marginalising poor rural women. In a report published on 21 April, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization concludes that women subsistence farmers will be evicted to make way for huge biofuel plantations.

Publication Date: 
02/05/2008
New Scientist
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Tags:
Bio Fuel Crops, Biofuel, Women, FAO

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