food insecurity
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$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern Canada
In the farthest-north part of Canada, food is so outrageously expensive that the basic necessities of life are beyond normal people's reach.
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Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
This post is by Janet Larsen, Director of Research at the Earth Policy Institute. The world’s farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tons, up 53 million tons from the previous record in 2009. Consumption grew […]
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We can feed 10 billion of us, study finds — but it won’t be easy
A new study in Nature says the world can feed itself without ruining the planet -- if we make major adjustments now to how we farm and eat.
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In its previous life, this corner grocery was a shipping container
Mobile food deliveries bring fresh, healthy produce to food deserts. But to really change a neighborhood's access to food, a small store with big ideas learns you have to take the wheels off.
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Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
I feed my family food from the dumpster, as explained in my new documentary "Dive!" But we need supermarkets to stop throwing good food in the dumpster in the first place.
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Mom-and-pop vs. big-box stores in the food desert
A locally owned grocery in Pleasantville, Iowa. Photo: Ashton B Crew, wikimedia commonsA few weeks ago, when the Obama administration released its Food Desert Locator, many of us realized that a once-good idea has spoiled like a bag of old bread. If you go online and find that your family lives in a food desert, […]
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How to solve world hunger by bringing farming indoors
What if the only way to save crops from climate change was taking the climate out of the equation entirely? Researchers in the Netherlands think that artificially lit, carefully irrigated "sunless farming" may have the power to reverse world hunger. With the right crops and the right equipment, researchers think that a space as small […]
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Chile crisis of 2011 reveals need for more resilience and diversity on the farm
Chile crops just couldn’t take the heat from the February cold snap.Photo: Demetri MouratisWhat a difference a few days of aberrant weather can mean to our food security, our pocket books, and our penchant for hot sauce. The record freeze that hit the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico in early February is still affecting vegetable […]
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Why world food prices may keep climbing
Click for a larger version.In February, world food prices reached the highest level on record. Soaring food prices are already a source of spreading hunger and political unrest, and it appears likely that they will climb further in the months ahead. As a result of an extraordinarily tight grain situation, this year’s harvest will be […]