What's Behind the Global Food Crisis?
The 2008 global food crisis is compromising the survival of 860 million undernourished people and threatens to push a hundred million people into extreme poverty, erasing all of the gains made in eradicating poverty in the last decade. Record high prices have put food out of reach for the poorest people in the developing world, many of whom already spend more than half their income on food. Growing food insecurity is undermining tenuous civil stability in at least 33 countries, about one sixth of United Nations member countries.
Fact Sheets
- Casino of Hunger: How Wall Street Speculators Contributed to the Global Food Crisis
- Dairy Crisis 101
- The Bad Seeds: The Broken Promises of Agricultural Biotechnology
- The Bottom Line of Tracking Livestock: The Money Behind the National Animal Identification System
- Animal Identification Does Not Equal Food Safety
Reports
- Casino of Hunger: How Wall Street Speculators Fueled the Global Food Crisis — During 2008, rising food prices — accelerated by ...
- Unseen Hazards: from Nanotechnology to Nanotoxicity — Nanotechnology—engineering extremely small parti ...
- Bridging the GAPs — Although the vast majority of produce-related food ...
- rBGH: How Artificial Hormones Damage the Dairy Industry and Endanger Public Health — Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), also cal ...
- Where's the Local Beef? — Local beef. Sustainable sausage. They’re what a ...