The UN is urging action be taken to tackle the problem of global food shortages and rising food prices, which caused turmoil during 2007 and 2008. The call has come from Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Secretary of State, who addressed a meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. She said that [...]
Recommendations for making U.S. food aid more nutritious call for significant changes in the content of foods the United States delivers to the world’s hungry. The United States is the world’s largest supplier of food aid, reaching 55 million people in 46 countries last year, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). That [...]
The media love to talk about rising prices on food, and other staples of an average American’s everyday life. The thought of a staple rising by five cents can send everyone into a tizzy, proclaiming the death of the middle class, a new recession or the rise of a new economy where there is a [...]
