EUROPE: Subsidies Feeding Food Scarcity

European subsidies for agriculture are contributing to rapidly rising food prices and the destruction of small-scale farming in the South, experts say.
“Farmers in countries of the South cannot compete with subsidised agricultural products from Europe,” said Thilo Bode, director of the German non-government organisation Foodwatch. “The subsidies the EU pays to farmers in France, Germany, [...]

Struggling to stay ahead

Due to a notable shortage in food stock on international markets, prices are soaring and expectations are that they will continue to increase in 2008/2009. The problem was reflected on local Egyptian markets in the past few months, with a clear shortage in bread and an unprecedented jump in the cost of all food staples.
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UN agency chief warns of food crisis ‘civil war’

AFP
UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf on Friday warned of civil war in some countries because of global food shortages and called for a revamp of the international food system.
The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization said on France 24 television that international leaders had failed to act on warnings from his agency leading [...]

Putting pollution on grocery bills

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Food Riots Erupt Worldwide

AlterNet
Food riots are erupting all over the world. To prevent them and to help people afford the most basic of goods, we need to understand the causes of skyrocketing food prices and correct the policies that have fueled them.
World food prices rose by 39 percent in the last year. Rice alone rose to a 19-year [...]

ASIA: ‘Neglect of Farming Led to Rice Crisis’

The headlines screaming about a global food shortage have not aroused surprise in a leading non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with farming communities across Asia. To its members, warnings of hunger on a biblical scale are hardly news.
After all, the Asia-Pacific arm of the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), a global environmental lobby, has been raising the [...]