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Famine Prevention Organic News
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| U.S. promotes biotech solutions to food crisis | The United States intends to promote the use of bioengineering and increased scientific research to help improve food security at the upcoming World Food Security conference, hosted by the U.N. World leaders will meet at the conference to discuss plans to prevent food prices from rising further. | Jun 05, 2008 |
| Big seed companies threaten small farmers and food security | Small organic farmers like Heather Meek and partner Frederic Sauriol are resisting pressure to buy genetically modified (GM) seeds from big corporations. | Jun 05, 2008 |
| Bt cotton introduces a pest to India’s plants | In this OpEd piece, the writer claims that insect pests have accompanied the use of Bt cotton in India. | Jun 05, 2008 |
| Vandana Shiva blames economic systems for food crisis | Vandana Shiva, director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology and Ecology and the founder of Navdanya, thinks that incompatibility between the environment and global economics is the reason for soaring food prices. | May 29, 2008 |
| From producers to consumers: how rice farmers face catastrophe | In the Philippines, poor farmers are struggling to feed their families as the cost of rice soars. | May 29, 2008 |
| High fertilizer prices threatening farmers | The last year has seen a dramatic rise in the prices of fertilizers that may be preventing conventional farmers from meeting the world's food demands. | May 29, 2008 |
| EU moves to shift supports from larger to smaller farms, ease dairy quotas | European farm policy, pushed into bizarre and fantastic shapes over the years by the need to reduce mountains of surplus cereals and butter, must now adjust to a strange new world of booming demand and food shortages. | May 22, 2008 |
| China's appetite for rubber fuels poorer countries' economies, but places burden on some | With China expecting to gobble up fully a third of the world's rubber production by 2020, some poorer countries are calling rubber trees the miracle crop that could pull them out of poverty. | May 22, 2008 |
| Farming suburbia | There's "local," as in a farmer's market downtown, then there's "local local," as in you own front yard. | May 15, 2008 |
| Many debt-ridden Indian farmers turn to suicide | Debt-ridden Indian farmers bankrupted by a Green Revolution foisted upon them by the Western world are committing suicide with disturbing frequency, prompting an anthropologist familiar with village life in India to declare the situation one of the worst public-health crises since the country's independence. | May 15, 2008 |
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