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NY Times “Room for Debate”: Is the World Producing Enough Food? Global food prices are soaring again, as droughts, freezes and floods have affected various crops in many parts of the world. At the same time, demand is rising with living standards in fast-growing countries. Seven food policy experts share their views on making global …
Meatless Monday. Sounds like lent, but on a different day of the week, right? Exactly. A project of The Monday Campaigns, and in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, Meatless Monday was launched to help Americans reduce their meat consumption by 15 percent in order to improve their personal health and the …
Food Fight: Climate Change and the Coming International Food Crisis [Civil Eats] “Climate change causes agricultural problems that in turn give rise to hardship, hunger, unrest, and even war. Not a pretty picture. In this context it is hardly surprising that the CIA is establishing a new Center for the Study of Climate Change, or …
We’ve been posting a lot recently about escalating food prices in the developing world. Here’s yet another report from Reuters: “Rice prices will likely tick higher on the back of fresh demand from Indonesia and Sri Lanka, but gains will be nowhere near as dramatic as 2008 thanks to ample supplies from top exporters Thailand and …
Originally posted on The Blog at 16th and Q, the blog of the DC JCC, and cross-posted on the Pursue blog. What is a food democracy, and why do we need one? This was the central question of the panel discussion entitled “How Good Food Makes a Difference” that took place at the Goethe-Institut (in cooperation with the Heinrich Boll …
