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...

Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a “green revolution” to solve the food crisis threatening Africa. “A genuinely African green revolution...

China could lease overseas farming land to beat rising food prices, according to reports from Beijing. Soaring grain prices have encouraged the ministry of agriculture...

Until a few months ago, Booncherd Leekasem would never have been caught astride a muddy tractor or squelching through buffalo dung in a rice paddy. As a headman of Khao...

Fred Grieder has been farming for 30 years on 1,500 acres near Bloomington, in central Illinois. That has meant 30 years of long days plowing, planting, fertilizing and...

Food riots which have struck several impoverished countries could spread with shortages and high prices set to continue for some time, the head of the United Nation’s...

Oil shock of another kind. Rising demand for fuel to meet global demands for mobility is encroaching up the production of edible oils. Conversion into bio-fuels has...

Scientists have predicted that 2007 will be the warmest year yet, but does it really mean anything to a common person? Are we really concerned and prepared? No, not...