President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana yesterday called for fair and predictable market system to aid Africa’s green revolution. He said there should be equity in the value chain to assist ‘our farmers’ to look ahead with some...

George.W.Bush is not the most respected president in the world but this seems justified, as he is not even the most respected president in the US. But even then, he is not expected to speak the way he does. The latest from his mindless sense of...

India can take lessons from the global food crisis. From being world’s third largest producer of wheat, India now may become the world’s largest importer. India is slowly shifting its priorities from growing staple foods to vegetables...

Africa and Latin America should adopt their own versions of agricultural protection along the lines of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a response to rising demand for food, according to Michel Barnier, France’s farm minister. He...

The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world’s poorest people. A...

Why are we growing food to feed cars instead of people? The competition for grain between the world’s 800 million motorists, who want to maintain their mobility, and its 2 billion poorest people, who are simply trying to survive, is emerging as...