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Biofuel Surge Could Have Severe Downside, Warn Experts
As the United States looks to biofuels to solve dependency on foreign oil, it must be careful not to create a more serious problem. Biofuels could lead to the loss of biodiversity and create economic...
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Food Security Firsthand
Chelsea Catto, food security Program Officer at Mercy Corps, discusses the goals and obstacles of Mercy Corps' food security programs while offering insight from the field.Chelsea Catto is the food...
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Food Security Resources
Learn more about food security issues with our comprehensive resource page. Mercy Corps defines food security as a state when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to...
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The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation
Population growth in cities has resulted in increased concentrations of people in slums, which has escalated the effects of server poverty. The problem is unplanned growth. Photo Credit: Ells...
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Book Reveals What the World Eats
What's on the World's Dinner Table?Hungry Planet - What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel and Faith D'AluisioPublished by Material World Books, 2005, 287 pp.Hungry Planet Photo Credit: Amazon.com Coming...
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Can Crops be Climate-Proofed?
Climate change threatens food crops across the world. Now scientists are re-focusing their efforts on crop resilience, rather than yields.Around the world, researchers fear many useful wild species...
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Mapping for Change
We have elevation maps, weather maps, and population maps. So why not soil maps? It may be the key to the food security of an entire continent.Africa has the most depleted soils on earth. A major...
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A Billion for a Billion
Keeping with a UN target of committing 0.7 percent of national income to alleviating poverty and hunger, Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero the prime minister of Spain has pledged 1 billion euros to...
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Who will profit from 'land grabbing'?
A million hectares in Uganda. Some 690,000 hectares in Sudan. And 500,000 hectares in Tanzania. These are just a few of the numbers that have appeared on the bargaining table in the past year as...
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Thoughts on Obama's food security initiative
The old saying goes that if you give a man a fish he eats for a day but if you teach him to fish he eats for life. If such a program were run by the current U.S. approach to food security, that fish...
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A second scramble for Africa?
"The African continent is going to be the golden continent of the period," raves a business leader at the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos. This sentiment is shared by economists, investors and world...
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Food for Thought
Wildfires in Russia. Revolution in the Middle East. Rising oil prices — these seemingly unconnected events have cumulated in a weak global harvest that will place additional burden on families whose...
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The Successes (and Failures) of Seed Subsidies in Malawi
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life; if you give a family seeds, do you feed them forever?For decades, the people of Malawi have lived with chronic food shortages, prompting massive food aid...
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Why the future of rural microfinance looks a lot like the One Acre Fund
Two weeks after our coverage, the One Acre Fund was also featured in a 10-minute segment on the PBS Newshour. Our article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.After years of neglect, a new...
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How to make population growth work for Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is getting bigger. But despite warnings from neo-Malthusian alarmists, population growth—if managed correctly—could be the key to unlocking Africa’s economic potential. Even as...
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Fighting to Preserve Forests in the Central African Republic
The Central African Republic turns to educate its youth to combat the effects of deforestation.The Central African Republic loses up to one million hectares of forest a year, according to official...
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