Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s...

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a “state of public calamity” to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the...

Food consumption in Nigeria is expected to increase by 16 per cent to N5.8 trillion, a tendency which is to continue through to 2013, according to yesterday’s...

The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size...

As everyone knows, we’re lying under a very strong Israeli closure that has badly affected our life as Palestinians as well as our work here in Gaza. For nearly 20...

*Note: Apologies to the lyricists of the Ricky Martin single, “Livin’ La Vida Loca” whose title I partially ripped off for this essay. Awhile after clearing the...

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...

Have those of us who live in a city or suburb been lulled into a false sense of security that the government will take care of us, no matter what happens? I used to be....

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...