International Oversight
Panettone is a traditional Italian holiday bread.
Italy's agriculture minister asks Italians to choose among the 4,500 foods of Italian origin - sausage-like zampone, cotechino or panettone, oranges, apples, kiwi - this holiday and to skip the items that travel 2,500 kilometers to market. Coffee, he says, is exception. And: panettone recipe (click 'See also').
By Colleen Barry
The Associated Press; International Herald Tribune 2008-12-18 (entry)
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Cholera, spread by feces-fouled drinking water, has sickened 16,000-plus Zimbabweans since August. Nearly 1,000 have died (click 'See also); cases could surpass 60,000. Fresh water supplies captive to chaos of Mugabe regime; hospital system shut down by an exodus of workers whose salaries are worthless from hyperinflation. Millions enduring severe and worsening hunger. And: UN, running out of funds, may cut food rations there (click 'See also').
By Celia W. Dugger
The New York Times 2008-12-12 (entry)
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Pledging to learn from baby formula case, China launches campaign to restore faith in food products after melamine-tainted dairy product scandal. Initiative includes assessment of procedures, probes of high-risk producers or regions and targets food processors with fewer than 10 employees - 70 percent of country's 500,000 producers.
By Mike Stones
Nutraingredients.com 2008-12-09 (entry)
Calling melamine a contaminant that sometimes is unavoidable, World Health Organization sets 'daily tolerable intake' without 'appreciable health risk.' The toxin, an industrial chemical, can cause kidney stones, kidney disease, other organ problems and kidney failure, and can be fatal in children. And: Toxin links industrial waste to U.S. food system (click 'See also').
nutraingredients.com 2008-12-10 (entry)
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EU, in farming policy overhaul, to change distribution of
billions - 40 percent of EU budget - in subsidies to farmers. Critics
say diluted changes will skew markets further. Coming soon: Up milk
production quota; put set-aside farmland into production; reduce
payments to some farmers, landowners, including Queen. And: Questions, answers on Common Agricultural Policy (click 'See also').
By James Kanter
The New York Times 2008-11-20 (entry)
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Dwindling resources - water and food - and climate change, growing populations will contribute to regional conflicts, global instability, says Global Trends 2025. National Intelligence Council report (click 'See also') for policymakers says Middle East, parts of Africa, eastern Europe, Asia at greatest risk.
By Peter Finn and Walter Pincus
The Washington Post 2008-11-21 (entry)
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In effort to cut dependence on U.S. imports, South Korean firm plans million-acre corn field on land just leased for 99 years in Madagascar. Daewoo hopes to harvest five million tons of corn annually by 2023. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, seeking similar agricultural investments in Africa or Asia while Angola, Ethiopia seek partnerships with countries in need.
BBC 2008-11-19 (entry)
Rural dwellers, workers, students near farmland must be considered in assessing pesticide risk, UK government rules. Current rules considered only occasional, short-term 'bystander' exposure, not repeated exposure to crop spraying, chemicals over years. And: 'Pesticide nun' and plaintiff Georgina Downs holds industry, politicians accountable (click 'See also').
By David Adam
The Guardian (UK) 2008-11-15 (entry)
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At least 1 million people could starve to death in a year if political deadlock in Zimbabwe continues, Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader warns. UN food agency, running short on funds, reduces corn, bean rations to 4 million people. Plea for $140 million for food from now till April harvest unheeded, World Food Program says, and food will run out in January.
BBC News 2008-11-11 (entry)
Fighting world hunger should be priority for Barack Obama, says UN leader. Effort needs
$30 billion a year to boost rural infrastructure, farm productivity and wages of farmers. Record crop yields have reduced immediate problems, but agency fears that financial crisis will trigger another food price surge. Farmers have cut back on planting in response to high fuel, fertilizers prices and lower prices for grains.
By Svetlana Kovalyova
Reuters 2008-11-07 (entry)
Food, water, tents distributed to survivors of Pakistan earthquake near Afghanistan border, but there's not enough to go around. Children beg for food from passing aid trucks. UN plans initial delivery of flour, lentils, salt from nearby warehouses. More than 300 dead, 20,000 homeless. China, Japan, U.S., Turkey offer help.
By Ed Johnson and Farhan Sharif
Bloomberg 2008-10-31 (entry)
For sake of economy, national security and moral authority, U.S. must stay committed to international aid, President George Bush says. Rising food prices have added 75 million people worldwide to rolls of chronic hunger for total of 925 million, UN says. In July, Senate panel voted to scale back funding request of Bush program that rewards countries for meeting strict policy, governance criteria; group has disbursed less than 10 percent of its $6.3 billion.
By Dan Eggen and Anthony Faiola
The Washington Post 2008-10-22 (entry)
World's promises to modernize agricultural practices and support third-world farmers remain unkept, UN speaker charges. Experts say ranks of hungry likely to grow from 920 million to 970 million this year. Only 10 percent of $12 billion pledged by world governments has arrived, and bulk was earmarked for famine relief, not longer-term agricultural aid to make future famines less likely.
By Shawn Pogatchnik
The Associated Press; Winnipeg Sun (Ca) 2008-10-17 (entry)
Eve of World Food Day was missed opportunity for presidential candidates to discuss hunger, poverty. Starvation kills a child every five seconds; nearly one billion people go hungry daily. Both candidates must speak specifically about proposals to address global hunger, food shortages. And: To join anti-povery effort, click 'See also.'
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The Capital Times (Madison, WI) 2008-10-16 (entry)
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Listless babies, wizened one-year-olds, two-year-olds with no food for two weeks are among the millions dying from hunger in Somalia in 'forgotten crisis.' Recently, thousands of desperately hungry besieged 35-truck UN convoy in Mogadishu, taking two million pounds of food. Unending war, drought, global food supply squeeze, unemployment, inflation all to blame.
By Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times 2008-10-11 (entry)
Forty-one e.coli cases, three in Canada, linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Michigan. And: Hospital head wants to know why there was five-day delay in notifying health authorities of outbreak (click 'See also'), considering recent listeria outbreak that has so far killed 20 and left 32 seriously ill across Canada.
By Erica Bajer
The Chatham Daily News (CA) 2008-10-08 (entry)
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Liquid milk in China found to contain melamine after similarly tainted infant formula kills three babies and sickens 53,000, with nearly 13,000 hospitalized for kidney problems. Instant coffee, milk, candy for export blocked at Asian borders. Don't assume the Chinese piece of the global supply chain follows the rules, says expert. Product-quality chief resigns. And: Ten countries ban Chinese dairy products (click 'See also').
By Don Lee and Mark Magnier
Los Angeles Times 2008-09-22 (entry)
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Feeding 6.3 million North Koreans to avert famine will cost half a billion dollars in emergency food aid in next 15 months, UN says. U.S. just delivered 110,000 tons of food, but bad weather, price hikes, export restrictions and political maneuvering have kept stores low. And: Roughly a third of country's children, mothers are malnourished (click 'See also').
By Peter Ford
The Christian Science Monitor 2008-09-04 (entry)
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Zimbabwe, once breadbasket but now in sixth year of food aid, lifts ban on aid after three-month standoff. Lag left up to 1.7 million left out of registration for food, other needs. Mugabe had claimed some groups fed only election opposition; U.S. says Mugabe used schoolchildren's food as political weapon. Meanwhile, 45 percent of citizens will be in need by January; they will forage, sell possessions and eat fewer meals to survive. For snapshot, click 'See also.'
By Celia W. Dugger
The New York Times 2008-08-29 (entry)
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Latin America is major food producer, but sometimes must import to prevent shortages. Political left turn was tied to food problem - Brazil's 'Zero Hunger' plan, Argentina's price controls, Venezuela's land reform. Assuring food security must avoid protectionism and requires new international regime of free trade for agricultural commodities.
By Khatchik Der Ghougassian
Journal of Turkish Weekly 2008-08-18 (entry)
It's time to apply lessons from energy sector to food policies and create an OPEC-like group for grain. As biofuels cropland demand increases and climate change alters global harvests, Organization of Grain Exporting Countries could regulate grain stocks - and institutionalize food as a human right. And: Russia plans to form state grain trading company (click 'See also').
By Mike Stones
nutraingredients.com/Decision News Media 2008-08-11 (entry)
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With irreversible climate change expected in 100 months, everything we do matters. Individuals alone can't re-engineer Britain's fossil-fuel-dependent food, transport and energy systems; government must lead. Between 1938 and 1944, economy was re-engineered and there were dramatic cuts in resource use and household consumption. How countdown was calculated (click 'See also').
By Andrew Simms
The Guardian (UK) 2008-08-01 (entry)
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Costa Rica launches probe after tuna spotters for industrial seine-fishing boat drop explosives onto or near boats of sport fishermen, and, separately, encircled sport boats with fishing net and yelled threats. And: Industrial trawler fishing (which drags nets along the sea bottom) is main culprit for soaring numbers of dolphin deaths (click 'See also').
By Pete Thomas
Los Angeles Times 2008-07-08 (entry)
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Food, shelter, and access to clean water remain biggest needs of May cyclone victims in Myanmar. Lack of proper distribution channels has hampered food deliveries. Challenge, aid workers say, is vastness of operation.
Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres 2008-06-04 (entry)
Traveling in secret in Myanmar, reporter (whose byline is withheld here) distributes antibiotics, bottled water, packages of cookies and instant noodles until they're gone, then finds monks struggling to care for homeless, thirsty children. The May 2 storm killed at least 78,000 people; 56,000 are missing.
By a staff writer
Los Angeles Times 2008-06-13 (entry)
Successful tax-reducing talks in Doha, Qatar, could add billions of dollars to earning potential of farmers in developing world, and to that of businesses and workers around the globe by opening rich nations' markets to mostly agricultural goods of poor nations. Triumph or failure may rest with a French bureaucrat.
The editors
The Washington Post 2008-06-11 (entry)
Unless causes of food crisis are addressed, emergencies will continue. World leaders 12 years ago declared they would halve world hunger by 2015, but plans for cooperation, action, and increased aid and help were ignored or squandered, mostly because of military or political conflicts or poverty, plus declining foreign interest in agricultural development.
By Kent Garber
U.S. News & World Report 2008-05-30 (entry)
World Food Program worker killed near UN camp in Lokichoggio, the main humanitarian operations hub for south Sudan. The victim, 37, was the WFP logistics coordinator for southern Sudan and had worked in Iraq, Guinea Bissau, Zimbabwe and Indonesia.
By Daniel Wallis
Reuters 2008-05-09 (entry)
Saying that food crisis grew from decade of neglect and ineffective development policy, UN head vows urgent response to global food crisis, including long-term solutions of root causes including trade practices. He warns that crisis could cascade into multiple crises affecting trade, development and even social and political security around the world.
By Louis Charbonneau
Reuters 2008-05-05 (entry)
Several hundred thousand without drinking water after cyclone in Burma kills 15,000 and devastates its rice growing region. Disaster likely to have a catastrophic effect on future food, but now, urgent needs are water purification tablets, food, plastic sheeting, cooking equipment, mosquito nets and health kits. Click 'See also' for Red Cross donation link.
By Amy Kazmin
The Washington Post 2008-05-06 (entry)
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Troops kill two Somalis during food riots that draw tens of thousands. In Mogadishu, the price of corn meal has more than doubled since January. Rice has risen during the same period from $26 to $47.50 for a 110-pound sack. Somali shilling, too, has plummeted because of growing insecurity and counterfeiting. Half of Somalia's population of seven million faces famine, UN says.
By Mohamed Olad Hassan
The Associated Press; The Washington Post 2008-05-05 (entry)
World Bank-UN hunger task force will chart a solution to food price rises that have caused hunger, riots and hoarding in poor countries. UN, World Bank call on countries not to restrict exports of food to secure supplies at home, warning that could make the problem worse. Rice prices ease on forecasts of new harvest.
By Laura MacInnis
Reuters 2008-04-29 (entry)
Stung by rising rice prices, Cambodia plans to suspend 450,000 students' free breakfast of rice, tuna and yellow split peas. Only the most destitute schools were eligible for program, but the meals were an immediate hit. Well-fed students are more attentive, tardiness is no longer a problem, and attendance by girls, who for years had been kept home, has increased sharply.
By Thomas Fuller
International Herald Tribune 2008-04-28 (entry)
Britain pledges $900 million to UN World Food Program, vows to seek changes in European Union biofuels targets if food prices-fuel crops link is shown. Hunger threatens more than 100 million people on every continent, UN says. Echoing statements from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank urges countries to help poor buy food instead of resorting to export curbs, which is hoarding on a national scale.
By Jeremy Lovell
Reuters 2008-04-22 (entry)
Food, water and weapons mistakenly delivered to Taliban-controlled area of south Afghanistan in late March, NATO says. The supplies were dropped by helicopter after navigator confused similar grid references. Afghan politicians say it wasn't an accident.
By Anil Dawar (and agencies)
The Guardian (UK) 2008-04-18 (entry)
Administration plans more initiatives against food crisis, which is a 'current emergency' with long-term global challenges, Condoleezza Rice says. Completing Doha global trade deal would increase agricultural productivity and moderate prices, she says.
By Susan Cornwell
Reuters 2008-04-17 (entry)
UN group calls for revolution in world agriculture, a return to ecologically sensitive farming techniques, and a reduction in distance between farm and fork. Current production has created unequal benefits and at high social and environmental cost; farming is responsible for more than one-third of world's most degraded land, study by 400 experts shows.
By Nick Miles
BBC News 2008-04-15 (entry)
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President Bush orders $200 million drawn from food reserve for Africa and elsewhere and looks to other nations to help meet the $500 million shortfall at UN World Food Program. In U.S., poor families are feeling the pinch; candidates beginning to cite cost of food in speeches.
CNN 2008-04-15 (entry)
Food prices, shortages more threatening to stability than market slump, say leaders of World Bank and International Monetary Fund at meeting. They ask richest countries for help to prevent starvation and disorder in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Food shortages have caused political instability in Haiti, Egypt, the Philippines and Indonesia. Participants seemed self-conscious about discussing bank losses versus hunger.
By Steven R. Weisman
The New York Times 2008-04-13 (entry)
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Two food aid workers killed in Southern Sudan while returning from deliveries for UN's World Food Program, bringing total deaths to five, with 29 drivers missing and 60 hijackings in Darfur since January. Attacks have slowed food deliveries in Darfur, where program is feeding more than two million refugees.
UN News Service; allafrica.com 2008-04-10 (entry)
Until government awakens to approaching convergence of crises, we are at mercy of grocers. Expert believes that radical shift in diet, to mostly plant-based foods, is only long-term solution, considering dependence of industrial food system on oil and its rising price, land shortages due to appetite for meat, shortage of farmers, pressures on crop land by biofuels and effect of climate change.
By Rosie Boycott
The Guardian (UK) 2008-03-28 (entry)
Nigeria's poor harvests from drought, plus rising food and cooking oil prices prompt government into selling portion of strategic food reserves for half the market rate. Commodities include rice, millet, corn and cassava. Agriculture drives economy, but most farmers are small producers.
By Dulue Mbachu
Bloomberg 2008-03-13 (entry)
United Arab Emirates considers creating strategic reserve of staple foods and subsidizing essential foods for citizens. Inflation rose last year to about 10 percent. Taking 'corporate social responsibility,' cooperative supermarket chain agrees to hold prices for 16 food items at 2007 levels this year and absorb expected food price rises of up to 40 percent.
By Simeon Kerr
Financial Times (London) 2008-03-13 (entry)
As elections approach, Indian government cancels small farmers' debts, announces its goal of becoming self-sufficient in food grains and pledges to hold food prices down. Critics say debt-forgiveness program is unfair to farmers with more land. Government also plans improvements on roads and rural infrastructure.
BBC News 2008-02-29 (entry)
While many farmers profit, skyrocketing food prices spark riots as they devastate the world's poorest people and the over-burdened government relief programs that are their last resort. Market shelves in Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Senegal and other countries are stocked with food many locals can no longer afford, adding to prospects for chaos.
By Vivienne Walt
Time magazine 2009-02-27 (entry)
As food prices skyrocket, global starvation worsens and the UN considers rationing food aid (click 'See also'), the callous U.S. - Bush, Congress and presidential contenders - boosts grain-burning for ethanol. Government should determine effects of biofuels before maximizing corn cob energy, and meanwhile, give more to world food aid to undo damage it caused.
The editors
Los Angeles Times 2008-02-26 (entry)
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Rains, floods have killed 16 and devastated rice, coffee, corn, banana, cacao and sugar cane crops in Ecuador; food shortages possible. President offers to refinance farmers' debts and send seed, fertilizer to help them replant. United States, Argentina, Japan, Spain and Venezuela have sent aid; more is expected to arrive from Chile, Israel, Korea and Peru.
The Associated Press; International Herald Tribune 2008-02-24 (entry)
European Commission announces mandatory testing for genetically modified experimental rice after finding it in products from China. With U.S. finding rogue genes in the wrong food chains and paying the price from GM-wary nations, discomfort grows over China's burgeoning industry. But the country must feed many people with ever-dwindling farmland.
By Krista Mahr
Time magazine 2008-02-18 (entry)
Feeding Afghanistan's poor would tamp civic unrest and support of insurgents and of Taliban, expert says. Afghan policemen are paid $70 per month, the Taliban pays its fighters at least $200 per month; nearly half the nation's 25 million live below poverty line and price of wheat flour has surged between 58 percent and 80 percent in the last year.
By Murray Oliver and news staff
CTV (Canada) 2008-01-26 (entry)
Afghani official predicts serious food shortages, possibly famine, and appeals for international aid in buying wheat. Shortfall was created by skyrocketing grain prices, lack of storage and shipment disruptions created by turmoil in Pakistan.
By Nicholas Comfort
Bloomberg 2008-01-04 (entry)
With fertilizer subsidies, Malawi's new president oversees evolution from hunger and dependence on emergency food aid to surplus, with lower food prices and better wages for workers. Success illustrates role of agriculture in reducing poverty in Africa and the importance of investing in seeds, education and other support systems.
By Celia W. Dugger
The New York Times 2007-12-02 (entry)
As pledges of international aid roll in - $450 million at last count - the first of two U.S. warships, loaded with food, drinking water, medical supplies and 20 delivery helicopters, reaches cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh.
By Farid Hossain
The Associated Press 2007-11-23 (entry)
Begin with U.S. companies, choosing to pay $7 for a 30-pound box of ginger from China, or $35 for Brazilian version, and expecting suppliers to guarantee hazard-free products. Add China's myriad small farms, lack of oversight and layers of middlemen, and result can be foods of uncertain quality.
by Nicholas Zamiska and David Kesmodel
The Wall Street Journal 2007-11-19 (entry)
As Prime Minister orders review of UK food security and role of farming in climate change, avian flu outbreak slams poultry industry in countryside and is likely to send food prices soaring even higher as holidays approach.
By Valerie Elliott and Gary Duncan
The Times (UK) 2007-11-14 (entry)
Six-year-old child killed and 11 people wounded as villagers' demand for food turns into rock-throwing and police open fire in response. The refugees had been driven from their homes three weeks ago by fighting between government forces and rebels in Congo.
Reuters 2007-11-05 (entry)
Soaring food prices blamed on both biofuels craze and oil prices hit Africa hard, but focused effort on promoting farming, which provides both sustenance and income in rural areas, could help poor participate in the global economy.
By Alistair Thomson
Reuters 2007-11-02 (entry)
China approves, in principle, new food safety law designed to standardize production, processing, sale and supervision; law also requires better release of information about food safety, higher fines and punishments and public's right to sue.
By Ben Blanchard
Reuters 2007-10-31 (entry)
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UN pleads for terror-free delivery of emergency food to millions of hungry Afghan refugees; humanitarian group counts 30 attacks on food convoys this year, up from five last year, and food losses of a ton.
The Associated Press; International Herald-Tribune 2007-10-29 (entry)
Inadequate food supply pushes some African women to engage in high-risk sex, a university study found. When struggling to feed their households, women in Botswana and Swaziland were more likely to sell sex, suggesting that promoting access to food may reduce AIDS.
By Josh Eveleth
Public Library of Science 2007-10-22 (entry)
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Food prices, already protested in Niger, Guinea, Yemen and Mexico, could trigger riots, warns Jacques Diouf, UN food chief; food costs require the bulk of poor citizens' incomes, with more than 2 billion living on $2 a day and vulnerable to price hikes in cereals, vegetable oils and dairy.
By David Brough
Reuters 2007-10-24 (entry)
In paradigm shift from corn/soy mix that requires water, anti-hunger groups find success in feeding malnourished and starving children with sweet-tasting paste made from peanuts, peanut oil, powdered milk and powdered sugar, and fortified with vitamins and minerals.
By Debra J. Saunders
San Francisco Chronicle 2007-10-25 (entry)
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As concerns mount about safety of Canada's food supply, its federal government creates a citizen-oriented website that will provide details about current recalls and about companies with problems: www.healthycanadians.gc.ca.
By Carly Weeks
CanWest News Service 2007-10-25 (entry)
Despite strong community opposition, European Union OKs imports of genetically modified corn and sugar beet for human and animal food; varieties were developed by subsidiary of DuPont, a unit of Dow Chemical, Monsanto and a German plant breeding company, KWS SAAT and taps into the $6 billion biotech crop market.
Bloomberg News; Reuters; International Herald Tribune 2007-10-24 (entry)
Biofuels hunger plus growing middle class in Asia and Latin America drive worldwide demand for corn, wheat and other staples, causing tenacious hikes in grocery bills; grain stockpiles down to 30-year low and humanitarian groups worry about feeding world's poor.
By Scott Killman
Wall Street Journal 2007-09-28 (entry)
As China creates and begins to enforce stricter standards for food safety to restore confidence in the Made-in-China label, exports to U.S. fall, domestic growers cheer and American consumers see prices head upward.
By Don Lee
Los Angeles Times 2007-09-24 (entry)
Though armed and hungry guerrillas with a taste for wild meat often spell doom for mountain gorillas, it's Africa's demand for charcoal - cooking fuel -- that truly is endangering them, leveling forests and spoiling water for drinking and habitats, paleontologist says.
By Richard Leakey
BBC News 2007-09-10 (entry)
As farmers eagerly switch from food crops to those for biofuels, ecological and social factors led by high food prices, meat-rich diets, dropping water supplies, climate change and the growing population threaten vast numbers of people with food and water shortages.
By John Vidal
The Guardian (UK) 2007-08-29 (entry)
Cholera epidemic, possibly from a sewage-poisoned well, hits northern Iraq, with nearly 4,000 cases suspected; Sulaimaniya juice bars shut down and restaurants told to stop serving vegetables that may have been washed in polluted water.
By Sherko Raouf
Reuters; Scientific American 2007-08-29 (entry)
Genetically modified sugar beet seed designed to resist Monsanto herbicide is gaining popularity among growers and processors, including American Crystal Sugar Co.; Wyoming Sugar Co., and Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative; farmers must pay $60 premium per acre, and GMO sugar won't carry special label.
Associated Press; CNN 2007-08-22 (entry)
Growers, now hiring thousands of seasonal workers for peak harvest months, cry foul over crackdown on illegal immigrants, declaring it's an effort of government to look good at the expense of the people with the hardest and lowest paid jobs.
By Juliana Barbassa
Associated Press; Forbes.com 2007-08-16 (entry)
Though customers spend more than $14 billion a year on organics and depend on USDA label even for imports, USDA infrastructure, with nine staffers and a $1.5 million budget, languishes; other departments spend about $28 million a year on organic research, data collection and farmer assistance, but the department spent $37 million subsidizing farmers who grew dry peas, an $83 million crop, in 2005.
By Andrew Martin
The New York Times (may require subscription) 0000-00-00 (entry)
After years-long import ban for fear of exotic pests, first commercial crop of luscious purple-red tropical fruit has reached New York and is being snapped up at $12 to $15 per piece; more shipments expected from Thailand, Puerto Rico.
By Andrea Hu
National Public Radio 2007-05-07 (entry)
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Vietnamese-American watches his former country's leader and listens to the demonstrators chanting for democracy, but to him, the first problem is the hunger of the begging children, and the desperate circumstances that cause a parent to abandon a child.
By Tam Pham
Asia Times 2007-08-16 (entry)
CARE turns down $45 million in food aid from U.S., citing practice of selling tons of often heavily subsidized American farm products in African countries that compete with the crops of local farmers; other charities disagree.
By Celia W. Dugger
The New York Times (may require subscription) (entry)
Government's subsidies to the very rich need to be addressed, but Congress should follow lead of the House in tending to nutrition needs of very poor around the world via the Food for Education program in the farm/food bill.
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The Daily News Tribune (MA) 2007-08-28 (entry)
Overfishing, poaching and pollution have depleted worldwide fish stocks to 10 percent of normal; for every pound of shrimp harvested, 10 pounds are discarded, along with turtles and dolphins, conservationists report.
By Eviana Hartman
Washington Post (entry)
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When discount superstore partnership enters India through wholesale stores, obstacles will include supply chain made up of mostly small shopkeepers, long chains of middlemen, each of whom takes a cut, and up to 60 percent waste during food transport.
Wall Street Journal (may require subscription) (entry)
"The Zen of Fish," and "The Sushi Economy," offer lessons in how global economy works, dangers of over-fishing and how it thrives on demand, and why trout might not be the best choice for eating raw (think tapeworms).
By Stuart Biggs
bloomberg.com 2007-08-08 (entry)
For mom-and-pop enterprises, food safety isn't important when the question is how to feed the family, so hidden and unregulated businesses spring up at home, behind closed doors - and they thrive.
By Audra Ang
Associated Press (entry)
Cargill's attempt to add Regenasure, a vegetarian version of shellfish-derived glucosamine, to European list of food products for addition in mostly beverages and fermented milk products, hits snag with questions of safety for diabetics.
By Alex McNally
nutraingredients.com (entry)
Following South America and Asia, Germany calls a cheese by the name of a town in Italy famous for its cheese, causing purists to shudder and the Euro-court to contemplate - is Parmigiano Reggiano only from Italy, or is it just a style of crystal-grained, crumbly and tart-sweet cheese that adorns many pasta dishes?
ansa.it (entry)
