Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far mo….

By the end of the 1960s, the United States owned more than half of the Indian rupee money supply, and that had been acquired through food aid. So I t….

We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways, taken over by capitalism - certainly….

The food shortages and high prices have certainly sparked the world media's attention, particularly since they're coming in such diverse places, bein….

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That ….

One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat food that's bad for them, mo….

Right now you're seeing more and more families reporting that they are skipping meals. They're having to give up meat. Mothers are foregoing food so ….

A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half mil….

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone..

We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and particularly if you factor in….

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity..

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology..

Yet if you go to the supermarket and look at food that's produced through industrial agriculture, look at what's happened to the prices. Have they be….

The one thing that everyone knows about America is people will say, I know my rights. One of those rights is the right to organize. When workers do g….

A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are we g….

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans were food insecure. That mean….

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty..

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can l….

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food..

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What susta….

I think we do need to worry about a food shortage, but we also need to worry about the quality of the food. A lot of the stuff that's marketed to us ….