Worldwide water shortage on the horizon

A growing international water crisis is forcing governments to rethink how they value and use and manage water, especially because economic development hinges on water availability. 
Drinking water supplies, agriculture, energy production and generation, mining and industry all require large quantities of water.
In the future, these sectors will be competing for increasingly limited freshwater resources, making [...]

Ethanol Fantasy Fuels a Food-Price Nightmare

Commentary by John M. Berry here.

Central America hands out cash to stall food crisis

Central American governments are handing out cash and fertilizers and buying up grains from farmers to prevent rising food prices from pushing millions into deeper hunger and poverty.
Guatemala, where one of every two children is already malnourished, is giving emergency money to thousands of women in the poorest areas to buy food for their families. 
El [...]

Britons wasting £10bn worth of food a year, research says

Britons are throwing away £10bn worth of food that could be eaten each year, £2bn more than estimates have previously suggested, a government-funded programme to cut waste reveals today.
The average household, ranging from a single older person to a group of students, is chucking out £420 of such food each year and the sum rises [...]