Food security

When Will World Leaders Listen to the Voices of the Poor?

IATP's Carin Smaller is blogging from Rome this week at the UN Food and Agriculture High Level Conference on Food Security.

Food security in Africa: U.S. support falls short, new report

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, released an important report last week scrutinizing U.S. based efforts to relieve hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa (a one page summary is accessible here).

The Heart of the Food Crisis - Inequity

It is always a pleasure to read Amartya Sen. He is a Nobel Prize winner (1998), has written extensively on famine, hunger, gender issues, human rights and politics.

British Prime Minister's Plan on the Food Crisis

This week, the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held a “Special Meeting on the global food crisis” at the UN headquarters in New York. The meeting's goal was to help move the international community towards action in addressing the causes of the food crisis.

The food crisis and corporate profits

How are global agribusiness corporations doing as the world experiences a food crisis? Very well, thank you!

The WTO Will Not Solve the Food Crisis

If I hear Pascal Lamy say one more time that the Doha Round will help solve the current food crisis, I am going to explode! For months, the WTO chief has used every public opportunity (and then some) to push for the completion of the WTO’s trade round to solve the current food crisis.

Will the International Assessment of Agriculture Bring a New Era?

On April 12, the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) reports on agriculture were approved by 57 governments meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa. The approval capped a six year-long process of negotiating terms of reference for the project, selecting more than 400 authors, and three