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Food prices: Leaders warn of “economic war”
With supply fears looming, some countries are racing to stockpile crops like wheat and rice, sending prices through the roof, the Financial Times has reported. Countries are reacting to the various...
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FAO encourages sustainable agriculture to ease pressure on food prices
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has released a guide advising countries on ways to manage the impact of high food prices. It also urges a long-term approach to price...
View ArticleExtreme weather: here to stay?
As Australia feels the force of one of the biggest tropical storms in its history, extreme weather in Asia has also been wreaking havoc recently. Month-long heavy rains in the Philippines have killed...
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Sri Lanka: one-third of rice “completely destroyed”
Heavy monsoon flooding in the second-half of January has cut Sri Lanka’s staple rice crop by 35%, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture announced today. Reuters reports that the Ministry estimates that...
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World Bank to invest billions more in agriculture
The World Bank has pledged to invest billions more in agriculture in response to new statistics that show the recent food price hikes are driving millions of people into extreme poverty. The World Bank...
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Food prices reach historic peak
Global food prices have hit record highs as the FAO statistics for February 2011 show a rise for the eighth consecutive month, the BBC reports. Cereal prices alone have increased by 70 per cent in...
View ArticleRussia’s heat wave “not climate change”
Last year’s heat wave in Russia, which wiped out a third of the country’s wheat harvest and drove up global grain prices, was caused by natural weather variations, US scientists have found. They...
View ArticleG20 leaves food crisis looming?
The food system will continue to suffer from a lack of strong leadership, and food price volatility will reign, say food experts and aid agencies following the first-ever G20 agricultural ministers’...
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