The Future of the Global Food System
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What is the future of the global food system? In this speech delivered at the AAAS annual meeting, Cornell Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, argues that the food system is broken and needs to be fixed. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
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The whale's tiny ancestor, how global warming may be hurting plants' carbon-fixing ability, and the mystery of Mars's missing limestone
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Pig manure in Chile will keep neon lights glowing on Tokyo's Ginza in years to come. It's a grand north-south tradeoff to slow global warming: You reduce your "greenhouse gas" emissions so I don't have to cut back on mine.
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Europeâs dinner tables are increasingly supplied by global fishing fleets, which are depleting the worldâs oceans to feed ravenous consumers.
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Istituto Ricerca Alimenti e Nutrizione, 'fa stare meglio'
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By Madeley, John  The chemical companies tell us that organic agriculture cannot feed the world. They are wrong. In the mid1960s a young British national called Alan Chadwick, demonstrated on a scrub-covered hillside in California that organic methods could increase productivity fivefold.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next multi-billion-dollar
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South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030.
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By ANGELA DOWDEN IF you're worried about the world around you, then you may already have started to eat fresh, locally produced food whenever it's possible. Yet around 70 per cent of the food we eat in Britain is still imported, according to the Soil Association.
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Science & environment: Consequences of contamination between GM crops and non-GM varietiesare set to worsen, scientists  warn
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Science & environment: Environmental and social impact of producing the crops may be greater than originally thought
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The demands of the global food and energy market may literally be eating away at the world's largest single largest absorber of carbon dioxide
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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Using plants to feed our fuel needs may be a great idea, and the biofuel goldrush could be a moneyspinner for several poor countries, but some experts warn people may go hungry as food prices rise.
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UK farming must embrace new ideas and scientific developments to survive the next few decades.
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By Stephen Leahy /IFEJ*  BROOKLIN, Canada, Dec. 18, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Organic agriculture is a potent tool to not only reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, but also to alleviate poverty and improve food security in developing countries, many experts now believe.
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Leading supermarket chain lays out road map for the future.