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Food Security Resources

If you\'re interested in food security issues, Global Envision recommends these books, articles, and websites.Books: William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette, World Hunger and Morality. New Jersey: A Pearson...

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Outgrowing the Earth

This book documents the ways that human demands are outstripping the earth\'s natural capacities-and how the resulting environmental damage is undermining food production.Outgrowing the Earth: The Food...

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Development & Economic Freedom

Reflections on Africa's Famine - What Jeffrey Sachs overlooked. If the recent famine across much of West, sub-Saharan, and East Africa could be solved by fiat money and massive food aid, Jeffrey Sachs...

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The Hungry Horn

Somalia and Ethiopia are hovering at the edge of famine. The Washington Post reported on the crisis in the “hungry horn” of Africa last week. In Somalia, U.N. officials predict that half of the...

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Green Hunger: The New Food Crisis in Ethiopia

If you think that the global food crisis is taking a toll on countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Mexico, imagine what its like for those living in Ethiopia. Alex Perry’s report from Kersa,...

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Technology against poverty: Three inspiring new successes

2011 is over, but the impact technology had on humanitarian aid planning last year could be just beginning to emerge. Humanitarian issues demand immediate solutions. In 2011, a lot of solutions to...

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As Congress debates, a new report says U.S. food aid is going to waste

A new report is claiming that unnecessary regulations imposed by the U.S. Farm Bill are wasting nearly half a billion dollars per year in taxpayer dollars that could be used to save millions of lives....

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Five clear steps we can take to fight food insecurity

Four years after a global crisis sent food prices soaring, the world continues to struggle with hunger and food price volatility. To combat global hunger, we clearly need a new strategy.The John...

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat. Here's how local droughts,...

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