On Our Radar: China’s Food Security
China wrestles with food security issues as ethanol production causes a jump in corn prices.
View ArticleDamaging the Earth to Feed Its People
Humans are cultivating almost 40 percent of the land surface of the Earth, and nearly a third of all the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet comes from agriculture.
View ArticleQuestions on Climate Change and the Food Future
Justin Gillis, an environmental science reporter for The Times, is taking reader questions on climate change and the world's future food security.
View ArticleReverend Malthus and the Future of Food
By raising the rewards for innovation, won't higher food prices prompt creative efforts by companies and farmers to break the barriers and produce more? Even a passing familiarity with history...
View ArticleCan the Yield Gap Be Closed — Sustainably?
It's not just that intensive agriculture causes nitrogen from fertilizer to volatilize into a major greenhouse gas, or that it washes into rivers; such farming is not sustainable over the long haul...
View ArticleWorld Food Supply: What’s To Be Done?
As food shortages loom, the governments of the developed world have acknowledged a need to invest anew in global agricultural development. Yet they have been slow to fulfill billions of dollars in...
View ArticleFood Prize Goes to Ex-Leaders of Ghana and Brazil
John Kufuor and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are recognized for making strides in sharply reducing hunger in their countries.
View ArticleModest New Steps on the Food Supply
In a reflection of growing global concern about shortages, agriculture ministers from the Group of 20 agree to create an information system to shine a brighter light on global grain flows and reserves.
View ArticleThe Global Food Crisis, Mapped
An interactive map created by Oxfam highlights the different ways in which high food prices and food insecurity are playing out in countries around the world.
View ArticleRevisiting the Global Food Crisis
After years of criticism that it has fallen behind the curve in its methods for calculating global hunger, the Food and Agriculture Organization is revising its techniques.
View ArticleA Fresh Take on the World Food Problem
Genuine reforms are under way, the authors of a new report write, but they have been slow and halting.
View ArticleA Tug Would Be Thrilling: Where Are the Fish?
Fishing alongside his son in the Mekong River, the author wonders why a catch is so daunting.
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