The global food crisis, while not often covered in the mainstream media, is more dire than ever. Although there is more than enough food produced on the planet to feed everyone on it, one sixth of the world's population is going hungry.
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Durrani warns of massive food crisis in Pakistan
Daily Times - January 29, 2010
Food crisis threatens millions in West Africa: aid
AFP - January 28, 2010
EU official concedes 'failure' over world hunger
The Parliament - January 25, 2010
Haiti Premier Seeks Help to Rebuild at Montreal Aid Conference
Bloomberg - January 25, 2010
Where quality food begins
Bangkok Post - January 23, 2010
BURKINA FASO: Farmers act on climate change
IRIN - January 20, 2010
Using Education to Fight Malnutrition
This Day Online - January 18, 2010
Fair Trade and Eco Friendly Coffee, Tea and Cocoa
Huffington Post - January 14, 2010
Opinion: Earthquake Exposes Haiti's Silent Crisis
Sphere - January 14, 2019
Pick-your-own vegetables to replace flowers in high street
Guardian - January 12, 2010
Largest U.S. farm group rallies against climate bill
Reuters - January 10, 2010
It's time to get back to the land
Telegraph - January 8, 2010
'Climate change resistant crops' move nearer after gene breakthrough
Telegraph - January 8, 2010
Fairtrade lost in steam of coffee house rivalry
Times Online - January 8, 2010
Better Meat Requires Better Butchers
GOOD Magazine - January 7, 2010
Food crisis 'hidden' from public say campaigners
Ecologist - January 6, 2010
Quick solutions needed to alleviate food crisis
Business Daily Africa - January 4, 2010
Maize shortage to affect 4 million Kenyans
The East African - January 4, 2010
DEVELOPMENT: Have a Hungry New Year (No Don't)
IPS - January 1, 2010
An environmental quandary percolates at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Boston.com - January 3, 2010
Why farms may be the new forests
The Economist - December 30, 2009
A giant step back in the fight against world hunger
CBC News - December 29, 2009
Ethiopia: Steps to Achieve Food Security
Voice of America - December 28, 2009
Food Crisis warning for Kenya in 2010
Daily Nation - December 27, 2009
How Walmart Is Expanding the Reach of Fair Trade Coffee
Triple Pundit - December 23, 2009
Left in the Cold at Copenhagen, Farmers Look to Future
Voice of America - December 22, 2009
Rising food prices punish rich and poor in India
World Focus (vid) - December 22, 2009
Maize scams cost Kenya Sh23b
Daily Nation (OpEd) - December 21, 2009
10 districts face acute food crisis
Daily Nation - December 21, 2009
2010 to witness devastating Food Crisis
Global Crisis News - December 20, 2009
Soaring food prices threaten India's stability
Times Online - December 17, 2009
Nepal's 'silent' food crisis
Guardian - December 15, 2009
Action urgently needed to avert food crisis in west Africa says Oxfam
AlertNet - December 14, 2009
Chinese Farmers Struggle With Climate Change
New York Times - December 14, 2009
Rain 'not enough' to end hunger in Kenya
CNN - December 10, 2009
U.N. climate talks have neglected food crisis: FAO
Reuters - December 9, 2009
Food crisis feared as El Nino rains delayed
Daily Nation - December 7, 2009
The hungry billion
The Daily Star - December 4, 2009
Fa-La-La-La-Lattes: Dunkin' Donuts To Serve $1.99 Small Hot Lattes Throughout Holiday Season
PR News Wire - November 25, 2009
China Drought Risks Food, Stability, McKinsey Says
Bloomberg.com - November 25, 2009
Be like Ike: have a Thanksgiving mission to fight hunger
San Francisco Examiner - November 24, 2009
Raj Patel on Americaa's Growing Hunger Crisis and the UN Summit to Fight Hunger in Rome
Democracy Now! - November 22, 2009
Results of UN Food Summit Seen as Disappointing
Voice of America - November 22, 2009
Solving hunger with super-rice
Globe and Mail - November 22, 2009
Ethiopian 'virgin land' for sale
Ethiopian Review - November 20, 2009
The urban poor are going hungry
Globe and Mail - November 20, 2009
Zimbabwe: Act Now to Avert Food Crisis
allAfrica.com - November 19, 2009
Govt launches 'food for education' this year
Daily Star - November 18, 2009
UN food summit ends with 'crumbs' in hunger fight
Associated Press - November 18, 2009
FAO World Food Summit kicks off
Green Planet - November 16, 2009
U.N. urges climate deal to fight "devastating" hunger
Reuters - November 16, 2009
Australia farmers see carbon credits boosting output
Reuters - November 16, 2009
UN chief urges unity over hunger
BBC - November 16, 2009
Kenya among food crisis nations, UN
Saturday Nation - November 13, 2009
UN: Climate Change Impacts Food Safety
Food Safety News - November 12, 2009
Diet Change Can Avert Climate Change, Researchers say
Solve Climate - November 11, 2009
The media and the farm sector
The Hindu - November 11, 2009
Brazil readies cotton retaliation against U.S.
The Commercial Appeal - November 10, 2009
Tea farmers struggle for survival in fields of gold
Guardian - November 8, 2009
Africa: Food Crisis Forces Changes on GM Crops
allAfrica.com - October 29, 2009
Asia's food security hinges on rice grower India
Forbes - October 29, 2009
UN food agency says 200 million more people hungry
Associated Press - October 25, 2009
Students petition for Fair Trade coffee
Daily Toreador - October 23, 2009
25 years after famine, food crisis stalks Ethiopia again
Times of India - October 23, 2009
Tallying Biofuels' Real Environmental Cost
TIME - October 23, 2009
Ethiopia seeks urgent food aid for 6 million
Associated Press - October 22, 2009
Gambia: FAO Celebrates World Food Day in URR
All Africa - October 21, 2009
Obama Administration Commits to Agricultural Aid
Voice of America - October 19, 2009
Experts will recommend British farmers to grow GM
Farmers Guardian - October 19, 2009
World Hunger Day
Press TV - October 18, 2009
Another Chance to Fix the Food Crisis
Huffington Post - October 14, 2009
Democracy Now - October 14, 2009
World’s poorest farmers now offered insurance
Boston Globe - October 13, 2009
Ethiopia's Meles Accuses Donors of Exaggerating Food Crisis
Voice of America - October 11, 2009
Millions will starve as rich nations cut food aid funding, warns UN
October 11, 2009
Food, famine & climate change: How we feed the world on 85p
Guardian - October 11, 2009
Climate change - impacts on agriculture and the costs of adaptation
Science Alert - October 8, 2009
The Battle of Oromo Coffee Farmers and Starbucks
Oromo Index News - October 7, 2009
Drought, Dams Force Iraqi Farmers To Abandon Crops
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - October 2, 2009
Indonesia Earthquake Survivors Lack Food, Clean Water, Shelter
Bloomberg - October 2, 2009
China's eye on African agriculture
Asia Times Online - October 2, 2009
Chinese still remember the hungry years
Telegraph - October 1, 2009
By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis
GLOBAL: We need another Green Revolution
Global Food Security Plans Too Narrow - Analyst
New York Times - September 29, 2009
Starbucks using more Fair Trade coffee; testing recyclable cups
ABC 7 - September 28, 2009
Kenya Govt blamed for persistent food crisis
Daily Nation - September 27, 2009
Top 5 Food Choices to Keep the Planet (And You) Healthy
The Daily Green - September 22, 2009
Kenya: Tea Farmers Set to Earn More Despite Drought
allAfrica - September 21, 2009
Somalia faces worst food crisis in 18 years: UN
Times of India - September 21, 2009
Saving A Billion People from Starvation
Huffington Post - September 18, 2009
Food Crisis – disaster in the making
Zee News - September 16, 2009
Official: Kenya cattle raid death toll reaches 32
Associated Press - September 16, 2009
The American who helped India conquer hunger
Hindustan Times - September 15, 2009
Eyewitness: Guatemala food crisis
BBC - September 14, 2009
North Korea: Starving in silence
Globe and Mail - September 14, 2009
Fairtrade chief gets on her bike to tackle global trade problems
Times Online - September 12, 2009
Somalia: Food Insecurity Expected to Worsen
allAfrica - September 11, 200
Top 5 Eco-Eating Habits
GreenMuze - Septemeber 10, 2009
Oxfam: Kenya's urban poor will be defining crisis
Reuters - September 10, 2009
India's rain brings crop of doubt
Asia Times Online - September 10, 2009
Food Companies More Responsible in the UK?
BNET - September 9, 2009
Guatemala declares hunger crisis
BBC News - September 9, 2009
Hunger, poverty keep 1.8m Kenyan children out of school
Daily Nation - September 8, 2009
Agriculture sharply divided over climate change legislation
Associated Press - September 8, 2009
Farmers suffer food crisis in eerie silence
The Globe and Mail - September 8, 2009
Mexico water shortage becomes crisis amid drought
Los Angeles Times - September 7, 2009
South Africa: Climate Change Tool Helps Identify Vulnerable Farmers
Farmers urged to get ready as climate change threatens crops
The News & Observer - September 4, 2009
Africa: Continent And the Global Food Crisis
allAfrica.com - September 3, 2009
Drought Withers Iraqi Farms, Food Supplies
NPR - September 3, 2009
Biofuel facts
BBC World Service - September 2, 2009
Whole Foods and Michael Pollan: Wrong to the Core
Huffington Post - September 2, 2009
Study: 1.6 billion face water, food threat in Asia
AP - September 2, 2009
Ethiopia to Set Environmental Code of Conduct for Ag Investors
allAfrica - September 1, 2009
Crisis and Hope
Boston Review - September/October, 2009
WTO Allows Brazil to Sanction U.S. Over Cotton Aid
Bloomberg - August 31, 2009
Africa: Report Exposes a Free-Market Famine
allAfrica.com - August 30, 2009
Leading article: Twenty-five years after Band Aid
Independent - August 30, 2009
Diseases Threaten African Banana Crops
Voice of America - August 28, 2009
Asia Faces Food Shortage By 2050 Without Water Reform
Science Daily - August 28, 2009
Four crucial resources that may run out in your lifetime
GizMag - August 27, 2009
A Battle for Hope
Reuters AlertNet - August 27, 2009
Hungry investors eye agriculture again
Globe and Mail - August 26, 2009
Warning That Half Of Somalia Faces Hunger
Newsroom America - August 25, 2009
Bleak outlook on food security
Daily Nation - August 25, 2009
False fears threaten food supplies
BBC - August 25, 2009
Scientist says trees can help reverse hunger, global warming
Xinhua - August, 24, 2009
Time trashes American agriculture
Drovers - August 21, 2009
Kenya: Selling the Cows to Feed the Children
allAfrica.com - August 21, 2009
A White House Farmers Market?
Washington Post - August 20, 2009
Nobel laureate aims to bring agriculture back into fashion
Reuters AlertNet - August 20, 2009
Kenya: Plan to Boost Food Security Unveiled
allAfrica - August 19, 2009
UGANDA: Hungry HIV-positive patients abandon ARVs
IRIN News - August 18, 2009
Food scarcity might continue to end of year
New Vision (Uganda) - August 16, 2009
Drought and Famine: Ethiopia's Cycle Continues
TIME - August 15, 2009
Invest in Africa, invest in the whole world
Guardian.co.uk - August 13, 2009
Teachers learn a lesson in the cultures of food
Los Angeles Times - August 12, 2009
Food Stamp Use Linked To Weight Gain, Study Finds
Science Daily (Press Release) - August 12, 2009
ETHIOPIA: Southern region gripped by food shortage
IRIN News - August 11, 2009
The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional
Grist - August 11, 2009
Food crisis could force wartime rations and vegetarian diet on Britons
Times Online - August 10, 2009
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
New York Times (OpEd) - August 8, 2009
In downturn, cities grow fresh food where they can
San Jose Mercury News - August 8, 2009
Sorry, but Fairtrade is a political issue
Spiked - August 5, 2009
Trees are 'crucial famine food'
BBC News - August 4, 2009
Kenya food crisis: urgent funding needed in Turkana
Reuters - August 4, 2009
Africa: Invest in Small Farmers, Says IFAD Chief
allAfrica.com - August 4, 2009
SUDAN: Call for disarmament after massacre
IRIN - August 3, 2009
KENYA: Food insecurity deepens, children hit hardest
IRIN - August 3, 2009
HAITI: Aid Flowing, But Food Crisis Drags On
IPS - August 2, 2009
Why you shouldn't go to Starbucks
The Triangle.org (OpEd) - July 31, 2009
Farmers Can Feed the World
Wall Street Journal (OpEd) - July 31, 2009
World falling short on emergency food aid-UN body
Reuters - July 29, 2009
Africa: Ending Continent's Food Crisis
allAfrica.com - July 29, 2009
Thinking of the future of Indonesian Agriculture
The Jakarta Post - July 29, 2009
Newly Poor Lining Up at Food Banks
Voice of America - July 28, 2009
Taxing the fat in your food
CNN Money - July 28, 2009
Mwesigye denies famine deaths
The New Vision (Uganda) - July 27, 2009
In Search of Help for the First Time?
New York Times (blog) - July 27, 2009
5-Year-Old Girl Feeds Nearly 18,000 Hungry San Franciscans; What Can You Do? (VIDEO)
Huffington Post - July 25, 2009
City Is Urged to Provide Healthy, Locally Grown Food
New York Times (blog) - July 23, 2009
Author Urges Americans to Rediscover Farming
Voice of America - July 21, 2009
Explainer: The food crisis in Uganda
Guardian.co.uk - July 21, 2009
African women on front line against hunger
Capital Business - July 20, 2009
President Obama and Congress Should Support Roadmap to End Global Hunger
San Francisco Examiner - July 18, 2009
School meals in Bangladesh fight hunger
San Francisco Examiner - July 17, 2009
Food 'crisis' hits young families
BBC News - July 17, 2009
Africa: The Continent and the End of Hunger
allAfrica - July 16, 2009
One Billion Hungry People: Multiple Causes Of Food Insecurity Considered
Science Daily - July 14, 2009
Combating Hunger Through Farm Aid
Voice of America - July 13, 2009
GLOBAL: Urban poor and hungry burgeoning unnoticed
IRIN News - July 13, 2009
Uganda: Alarm As Hunger Looms in North
AllAfrica.com - July 13, 2009
School meals to fight hunger in Tajikistan
SF Examiner - July 12, 2009
TEXT-G8 Summit statement on food security
Reuters - July 10, 2009
G-8 to pledge billions for global food initiative
USA Today - July 10, 2009
Hidden Crisis in Nairobi's Slums
Reuters - July 7, 2009
Environmental factors to blame for rising food crisis
Examiner (San Francisco, CA) - July 7, 2009
The food crisis will be back
Xinhua - July 7, 2009
U.S. wants G8 to pledge $15 billion on food security
Reuters - July 7, 2009
G8 to agree to open trade, boost farm aid -draft text
Reuters - July 6, 2009
G8 set to tackle hunger in Africa
BBC News - July 5, 2009
Number of Hungry People Soars
Wall Street Journal - July 3, 2009
U.N. says North Korea food aid has dried up
Reuters - July 1, 2009
Oxfam urges AU to combat growing food crisis
Xinhua - June 30, 2009
Global food supply far from secure: farming expert
Reuters - June 30, 2009
'Hunger Doesn't Take a Summer Break'
Washington Post - June 30, 2009
NKorea food situation 'critical': UN
AFP - June 30, 2009
Agriculture and Food in Crisis
Monthly Review - July/August 2009
Fighting hunger in San Francisco
Western Edition - June 30, 2009
It's Not the Food We Can't Get. It's the Food We Can.
Washington Post - June 25, 2009
Global food crisis tops NFF agenda
Weekly Times Now (AU) - June 22, 2009
Pope appeals for Africa as world's hungry reach 1 billion mark
Catholic News Service - June 22, 2009
Alarming malnutrition pushing children out of school
India Together - June 21, 2009
Global crisis pushes 100 million into hunger- UN
Reuters - June 19, 2009
Subsidized Fertilizer: The Answer to Africa's Food Crisis?
Scientific American - June 18, 2009
'Agricultural sector less hurt by global economic crisis'
The Hindu - June 18, 2009
MP cries foul over relief food
Saturday Nation (Uganda) - June 15, 2009
Breadline USA Part Two
Huffington Post - June 15, 2009
Food crisis, economic crisis and bail outs
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) - June 11, 2009
Movie Review: Food, Inc. (2009)
Entertainment Weekly - June 10, 2009
How tuna conquered the world
The Independent (UK) - June 9, 2009
Small farm funding up despite crisis-UN agency
Reuters - June 9, 2009
Conscious Coffee
Green Muze (Canada) - June 3, 2009
Green Mountain Takes on Coffee Giants Cup by Cup
Advertising Age (US) - June 1, 2009
US department predicts fall in Kenya’s coffee output
Daily Nation (Kenya) - May 30, 2009
Monsanto's CEO on Growing in a Recession
SmartMoney.com - May 29, 2009
It's not just the economy, it's a human rights crisis
Day Press News (Damascus, Syria) - May 28, 2009
Zim most food aid dependent country in the world
SW Radio Africa news - May 26, 2009
Are GM crops the answer to Africa’s food crisis?
Thaindia News - May 25, 2009
Desperate Russians won't turn up their nose at expired food
Los Angeles Times - May 25, 2009
Buying fair trade coffee
Examiner.com (San Francisco, CA) - May 22, 2009
Africa hunger crisis seen still tied to politics
Washington Post - May 22, 2009
Food, Inc. Film Exposes Problems With US Food Consumption
YumSugar.com (San Francisco) - May 21, 2009
'Severe food shortage' in Pakistan conflict zone?
Asia One News - May 20, 2009
National Geographic: Special Report - The Global Food Crisis
National Geographic - May 19, 2009
New food crisis linked to environmental degradation
CSR Asia - May 19, 2009
Agricultural leaders see free trade as buffer against recession
Reuters - May 18, 2009
Ethiopia: Catholic Relief Agency Responds to Food Crisis
allAfrica.com - May 15, 2009
World Food Crisis, a Nightmare for Millions
Radio Cadena Agramonte (Cuba) - May 15, 2009
Terrorism-Linked Charity Finds New Life Amid Pakistan Refugee Crisis
Time.com - May 13, 2009
Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged
Time.com - May 12, 2009
Food crisis hits 2 million in Ghana
Daily Nation (Nairobi) - May 11, 2009
Pakistan Fighting Sparks Fears Of Massive Humanitarian Crisis
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Prague) - May 10, 2009
Crisis eating in France, the land of haute cuisine
eTaiwan News (Taiwan) - May 11, 2009
International trade helps solve food crisis: WTO
Reuters - May 10, 2009
Shelters struggle with rising food costs
The Southern Times - May 10, 2009
Boosting food production alone not to solve hunger crisis: UN expert
Xinua - May 8, 2009
Death as famine ravages Uganda
Daily Monitor (Uganda) - May 7, 2009
Hunger is a Winnable Battle
Huffington Post (OpEd) - May 6, 2009
Export bans stoke food fears, fuel land grab-FAO
guardian.co.uk - May 5, 2009
Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises
Science Daily - May 5, 2009
China to join UN to address food shortage in Asia, Pacific regions
Xinua - May 4, 2009
Hunger walk feeds charity coffers
Boston Herald - May 4, 2009
Food banks see more who need and more who give
USA Today - May 3, 2009
Food Crisis Triggers Land Grab in Developing Countries
Voice of America - April 29, 2009
Don't blame hunger on speculation
Business Daily Africa - April 28, 2009
A Tsunami of Hunger
Middle East Online - April 27, 2009
Trapped civilians in Sri Lanka are facing starvation
The Independent - April 26, 2009
Can Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
Free Internet Press - April 25, 2009
The Food Crisis: A new deal will be needed to avert a global disaster in agriculture
Waterloo Record (OpEd) - April 25, 2009
MADAGASCAR: Political events upstage humanitarian crisis
IRIN News - April 24, 2009
The Global Threat from Hunger
The Middle East Online - April 24, 2009
Mia Farrow to start hunger strike over Darfur
AFP - April 23, 2009
Students learn the reality of the global food crisis
Tasmania Examiner - April 23, 2009
One step forward, two steps back in addressing the food crisis
Diario Del Web - April 22, 2009
World Bank Expands Response to Food Price Crisis to $2 Billion
World Bank Group - April 21, 2009
G8 Agriculture Ministers Try to Avert World Food Crisis
Voice of America - April 18, 2009
Aid groups face tough battle against Somali pirates
Reuters AlertNet - April 17, 2009
Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis
Yes! Magazine - April 16, 2009
Crisis could create 100 million 'new hungry': UN
AFP - April 16, 2009
Renewed vigilance needed on food security
Xinhua - April 15, 2009
Gambia: Lawmakers Sure of Food Self-Sufficiency
allAfrica.com - April 14, 2009
Junk Food Makes Kids Fatter, But Happier, Study Suggests
Science Daily - April 14, 2009
Concert at mall to collect food for local pantries
Newsday.com - April 14, 2009
Tapping China's Taste for Western Food
Barron's - April 13, 2009
Food crisis hits low-income earners hard
Daily Nation, Kenya - April 13, 2009
Aid workers begin quitting Somalia
Jerusalem Post - April 13, 2009
G8 warns: Double food output by 2050 or food crisis
Agro Napló - April 10, 2009
Food under threat
Daily News (Sri Lanka) - April 9, 2009
The real hunger crisis
Foreign Policy - April 8, 2009
Global Experts Unpack Food Crisis
The Cornell Daily Sun - April 6, 2009
Poor families are facing food crisis, says charity
Guardian.co.uk - April 5, 2009
The crisis the world forgot
CBCNews - April 2, 2009
Calls for food crisis action ahead of G20 summit
Farmers Guardian - March 31, 2009
How safe is supermarket food?
The Stew/Chicago Tribune - March 30, 2009
Food crisis puts hurdles on path to economic recovery
Business Daily Africa - March 30, 2009
A world of distress
Frontline (Volume 26, Issue 7) March 28 - April 10, 2009
A man-made food crisis
Socialist Worker Online - March 24, 2009
Women's land rights can help battle hunger in Africa
The Boston Globe - March 19, 2009
ECOWAS Meets Over Food Crisis
Leadership Nigeria - March 17, 2009
Lower prices aggrevate food crisis - U.N. Official
Reuters - March 9, 2009
