Every year copious amounts of fertilizer and nutrient-rich sentiment dump into the Gulf of Mexico from the mouth of the Mississippi River, feeding massive algae blooms...

The communist New People’s Army (NPA) vowed to sustain its campaign against biofuels and to raid plantations dedicated to jathropa, a source of biofuel.

Europe’s leaders know where they want to be when it comes to tackling global warming. The problem is they don’t know how to get there.President Nicolas...

In a wide-ranging session on Tuesday dealing with global biofuel, food security and poverty issues, there was plenty for the presenters to disagree about — but the...

While the fuel prices are soaring all time high globally, more and more countries are likely to switch over to biofuels. Nations are seeing this as good alternative of...

Tequila could become a thing of the past as Mexico appears to be turning its back on the cactus-like plant from which the country’s national tipple is made, in...

Echoing Indian concerns that conversion of food grains into bio-fuels is worsening the food price situation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Takatoshi Kato, IMF deputy managing director, cautions about effects of climate change on especially the warmest areas of the globe. Uganda is one of the countries...

The world is going green and the next generation of green machines, inspired entrepreneurs, Earth conscious students from around the world and the hopes and prayers of...

The price of rice and other food staples has increased around the world due to poor weather in some countries and rising demands. In Africa, the price of food has gone...

Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there’s...

Debate from two opposing perspectives on the value or harm of corn ethanol. You be the judge!

Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during...

Bolivian President Evo Morales came to New York this week to deliver the keynote address at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Morales became Bolivia’s...

Every morning, Hindu devotees haul buckets of fresh, creamy milk into this neighborhood temple, then close their eyes and bow in prayer as the milk is used to bathe a...

Breaking the dollar barrier “scares me,” said the Bronx-born owner of Bethesda Bagels. But with 100-pound bags of North Dakota flour now above $50 —...

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...

The impact of rising food prices on world markets is already putting Latin America against the ropes: as regional giant Brazil insists its focus on biofuels has nothing...

Tricks has spent 15 years conjuring more from less — mostly in Africa, these days in Asia. His task, as an international aid worker, is to stretch scarce rations of...

Sixty countries backed by the World Bank and most UN bodies yesterday called for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages,...