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Archive of Famine Prevention Organic News
| Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Hunger and profits soar | As the price of grains soar--doubling, tripling and quadrupling--profits for the world's largest grain traders have increased 30-90 percent from 2006 to 2007. | 05/08/2008 - 20:06 |
| Making food aid sustainable | Jesse Jackson gives President Bush props for releasing $250 million dollars worth of emergency food aid, but challenges him to take "real leadership...in developing a long-term plan for food sufficiency." | 05/08/2008 - 20:04 |
| Indian farmers and eaters protest new GMOs | Following years of problems with cotton genetically engineered to contain the pesticide Bacillius thuringiensis (Bt), farmers and concerned citizens took to the streets in India to protest the coming release of Bt eggplant. | 05/08/2008 - 20:03 |
| Fertilizer and food shortage | Story blames skyrocketing food prices partly on the increased cost of synthetically produced fertilizer, which it calls a central ingredient in modern agriculture. | 05/02/2008 - 19:34 |
| Better soil begets better food | A growing number of scientists are starting to view soil as a fragile resource, maybe even more so than water or air or petroleum. | 05/02/2008 - 19:28 |
| Food vs. fuel | Organic grain farmer and miller Lynn Clarkson takes on U.S. corn ethanol subsidies and blames domestic energy policy for distorting food prices worldwide. | 05/02/2008 - 19:25 |
| Drought in Australia helps fuel global rice shortage | Six tough years of drought in Australia have reduced that country’s rice crop by 98 percent and led to worldwide rice shortages. Rice prices have doubled and traditional exporters are keeping the coveted grain for themselves. Some scientists are pointing to the drought as the canary in the coal mine and one of the first significant indicators of the negative impact of global warming on food production. | 04/25/2008 - 18:18 |
| GM crops have no yield advantage | On the heels of a proclamation from the Britain’s Prime Minister that genetically engineered crops may be one of the solutions to world hunger, the Soil Association has released a report that shows GE crop yields equal or below those of the same none-GE crops over the past 10 years. According to Soil Association Policy Director Peter Melchett: "GM chemical companies constantly claim they have the answer to world hunger while selling products which have never led to overall increases in production, and which have sometimes decreased yields or even led to crop failures. | 04/18/2008 - 17:21 |
| UK prime minister calls for GM crops to fight world hunger | UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for the use of genetically modified crops to help meet the world’s food shortage. Rising fuel and food costs are causing head programs to have to cut back and leading to rioting around the globe. Brown has been criticized for supporting biofuel production, which often relies on feed stocks that could be feeding people instead of cars. Full story | 04/18/2008 - 17:18 |
| Grain gold rush could lead to worldwide food shortages | New York Times columnists explains how the high cost and scarcity of oil, poor policy and a rush to cash in on biofuels are creating the Perfect Storm that could mean serious food shortages at home and abroad. | 04/11/2008 - 21:09 |
