Brussels blames part of food price rise on US biofuels policy

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Mozambique president warns of food crisis

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Biofuels can’t feed starving people

After all the talk about the energy crisis and financial crisis, we have finally become aware of an even more dire drama: the food crisis.
Billions of people, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, are victims of a gradual and unsustainable rise in the prices of all farm products – wheat, soybean, rice, [...]

‘Biofuels frenzy’ fuels global food crisis: experts

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Corporate Vultures Lurk Behind the World Food Crisis

UN agencies are meeting in Berne to tackle the world food price crisis. Heads of International Financial Institutions (IFIs), including Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank (former U.S. trade representative) and Pascal Lamy, WTO’s Director General, are among the attendees. Will the “battle plan” emerging from the Swiss capital, a charming city with splendid [...]

Scientists focus on making better soil to help with food concerns

A farmer plowing and sowing his field with lima beans, near the town of Hatajata, Bolivia. (Antonio Suarez for The New York Times)
The earth’s uncertain oil reserves and dwindling freshwater supply may get all the attention, but modern society is also overtaxing the ground itself.
At the same time that a growing population and the [...]

Struggling to Fill the World’s ‘Breadbasket’

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IMF concerned about food crisis in Africa

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The International Monetary Fund expressed concern on Tuesday about the global food crisis but dismissed accusations that its policies helped cause the problem.
“We are concerned about it because higher food prices (and) higher oil prices mean higher import bills, and it can slow down economic growth,” the head of the IMF’s Africa department Benedicte Vibe [...]

The New World of Soaring Food Prices - even in the USA

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Food crisis grows in fields of poverty

Hunger is a movable feast. At the shocking worst of the ’80s Ethiopian famine, politicians from nearly everywhere, rock stars and, yes, reporters, flew from the relief camps to plunder the Addis Ababa Hilton’s daily international smorgasbord.
For the rich, and Canadians are among the richest of the rich, rising food prices are a sliding-scale inconvenience. [...]