A new international survey on donor attitudes suggests widespread popular support for committing funds to end global hunger. In nearly all of the 20 countries polled, a large majority of respondents said they are willing to contribute necessary funds to cut hunger and poverty in half by 2015.
With climate change, population growth, and alternative energy needs all contributing increased challenges for growing food to feed the world, some scientists are looking towards nuclear technologies to unmask hidden potential in plants. The goal is to allow plant breeders to develop new varieties of crops to withstand environmental stresses.
We are consuming more now than ever, and thus the demand is enormous. Suppliers have a little secret that the average consumer does not know or ask about, and that is, how this increasing demand is being met.
Supply and demand is one of the factors pointing to dropping organic, but it is only a short-lived catalyst. As the demand dwindles, so too will production. It is the other factors that will sustain the decrease.
An international team of 27 laboratories said on Sunday they had laid bare the genetic code of a tiny parasite responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses each year.
When America’s schoolchildren return to class in the fall, they will learn a painful lesson in economics: Higher food and fuel prices are forcing up the price of school breakfasts and lunches across the country, by as much as 50 percent in some districts.
Four people were killed in Haiti when demonstrators protesting the high cost of living clashed with security forces, a local official said on Friday.
An amazing time spent petting and feeding these very friendly dolphins. What an awesome experience!
