Editor's Note: This is an action notice initiated by the Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies (INEAS). Visit their website and offer your support for International Seeds Day which will be observed on April 26! Help Protect Farm-saved seeds and the world's natural seed banks! - Eds     There is a conspiracy... » read this article

FORTY-NINE YEARS AGO, the anthropologist Oscar Lewis published a book called “Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty,” detailing a single day in these families’ lives. One family, headed by Jesús Sánchez, a food buyer for a restaurant, continued to tell its story in a second Lewis... » read this article

27 November 2008 The US Department of Agriculture will shortly release figures showing that a record number of Americans, some 30 million, now receive food stamps, benefits available to low- or no-income people. That total will surpass the previous record set in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in... » read this article

Editor's Note: For background on this story see: Food wastage and rising food prices By Arturo Rosales, Axis of Logic May 31, 2008 Farma states, "A proportion of food grown for the supermarkets is rejected because it’s the ‘wrong’ size or shape for example, or may simply not have the... » read this article

"Its [Monsanto's] objective is to control all the world's food production."   - Attributed to anti-GMO activist in Paraguay**:   The French documentary that pulls the covers off all the Monsanto lies, The World According to Monsanto, is now available for sale in... » read this article

An internal report put together by the World Bank and leaked to the Guardian claims that biofuels may be responsible for up to 75 percent of recent rises in food prices. Even environmental groups haven't gone that far in their estimates. With soaring food prices high on the agenda for... » read this article

From the Cooking the Books column of the June 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard That was the headline of an article in the Sunday Times (27 April) by their Economics Editor David Smith. The way he endorsed was allowing �large, technologically sophisticated agro companies� to take over food production... » read this article

"Long era of cheap food is over" is the title of a republished article from the BBC today written by one David Loyn.  The "International development correspondent" for BBC News simply reports on what has happened to food prices in 2007 but fails to mention salient alternative facts about why... » read this article

Editor's comment: Ya gotta love the title that David Loyn, "International development correspondent" for BBC News gave to his article below: "Long era of cheap food is over". Look up the word, "glib" in Webster's and you might see David's photo there ... "Farewell, cheap food" is one of David's glib... » read this article

Editor's Note: Europe's trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is urging Latin American countries to "embrace the benefits of globalisation". In the following BBC news article, he stated: "I don't know of a country anywhere in the world that has lifted itself or its people out of poverty by turning its back... » read this article

LONDON, May 24 (Tierram�rica) - The current food crisis has revived the myth that the world doesn't produce enough food for its six billion people, according to Michel Pimbert, author of a new study that highlights local production as a potential solution. It is a "manufactured crisis" that is the... » read this article

Editor's Note: This is a report from a survey carried out in England and Wales. The BBC report does not mention this in the context of famine now being predicted in some developing countries due to rising food and fuel prices. This is the first survey of its kind ever conducted. Considering that the report... » read this article

In a broadcast interview with Daniel Mermet on French radio*, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, stated that the current world food crisis is not due to nature, but to man. Introduction to the interview from the web site of 'L�-bas si j'y suis'*: "A... » read this article

The most mercantile �Earth Day� yet � one that stretched into an �Earth Week� of consumerist hype � left a foul taste in my mouth this year, amid all the news of famine. However rightfully we fret about polar bears, plastic bags and the Amazon, the real urgency is feeding... » read this article

The only surprising thing about the global food crisis to Jim Goodman is the notion that anyone finds it surprising. "So," says the Wisconsin dairy farmer, "they finally figured out, after all these years of pushing globalization and genetically modified [GM] seeds, that instead of feeding the world we've created... » read this article

Biofuel production is 'criminal path' leading to global food crisis - UN expert 28 April 2008 - The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, according to the United... » read this article

The only surprising thing about the global food crisis to Jim Goodman is the notion that anyone finds it surprising. "So," says the Wisconsin dairy farmer, "they finally figured out, after all these years of pushing globalization and genetically modified [GM] seeds, that instead of feeding the world we've created... » read this article

24 April 2008 A series of reports in the international media have drawn attention to the role of professional speculators and hedge funds in driving up the price of basic commodities�in particular, foodstuffs. The sharp increase in food prices in recent months has led to protests and riots in a... » read this article

Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply. The rise in global food prices has sparked a number of protests in recent weeks, highlighting the worsening epidemic of global hunger. The World Bank estimates world food prices have risen 80 percent... » read this article

Last week�s meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Group of Seven were convened in the shadow of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While Wall Street�s turmoil and the deepening credit crunch dominated discussions, leaders of the global... » read this article