A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report titled ‘Growing Unequal Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries’ has shown that New Zealand is one of the most unequal nations in the OECD, with an...

Colombians live in a country that has many resources to produce food. We have plenty of water, the possibility of having all sorts of crops and a variety of animals that are a food source but we are starting to worry about scarcity and the rising...

Whatever happens with the ongoing negotiation impasse in Zimbabwe, there are social realities that no agreement will be able to reconcile. Even if the process of forging a unity government proves successful, that will mark a beginning of a long...

Here comes as a shocker bomb from the US: It seems two Asian emerging giants are responsible for the food crisis all over the globe. First, it was Condoleeza Rice, the US secretary of state and now, it is Bush all over media toeing the same line....

Drought has once again hit Ethiopia triggering another humanitarian crisis in the country. Ethiopia first caught the attention of the international community 24 years back when famine and inhuman policies by the Ethiopian government killed over...

Somewhere in the world today, one man or woman (or both) are going to tuck into the finest linens that money can purchase after wining and dining in the finest of restaurants available in the affluent parts of metropolitan cities strewn across the...

Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the fast growing inflation. For that, more of farmlands are required to grow food...

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

In a sudden display of urgency and anxiety the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has announced that it is targeting zero deforestation in the ASEAN region by 2020. It has correlated the recent food crisis to the loss of...

President Museveni speaking at the commonwealth heads of government conference on reform of international institutions in London re-affirmed that the current global food crisis is a blessing rather than a curse for countries like Uganda. pic...