Up To 50% of the World’s Food is Being Wasted

A new report by a UK organisation claims that as much as half of the food produced around the world is never eaten. The Institute of Mechanical Engineers claims, in their 'Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not' report, that 30-50% of the four billion tonnes of ...

Russia May Limit Grain Exports in Future Food Crisis

Russian Economy Minister Andrei Belousov said on Friday that his country may adopt measures to limit grain exports if domestic prices rise too high. Draughts in the US and Russia, draughts and wildfires in eastern Europe, excessive rainfall in Britain and other unusual weather patterns this ...

World Bank Issues Warning on Soaring Food Prices

The World Bank has warned that the rising price of staple foods - which jumped up by 10% in July - could leave many of the world's poorest households struggling to feed themselves. "We cannot allow these historic price hikes to turn into a lifetime of ...

Can The World Produce Enough Food to Feed Everyone?

With recent extreme weather events damaging crops and driving up food price inflation around the world there are once again fears that we could be approaching a repeat of the kind of global food crisis seen in 2007 and 2008. If this happens then millions ...

Balkans Drought and Wildfires Add To Food Crisis Fears

The Balkans region of eastern Europe is being hit by the worst drought in almost 40 years - following straight on the heels of the harshest winter weather in decades. The situation is being made even worse by the spread of wildfires which are destroying ...

Food Price Inflation: Is There A Food Crisis Coming?

As prices of staple foods on the commodity markets reach record highs, fear is growing that a series of bad crops around the world could soon cause a global food crisis. A number of factors are coming together to push up the cost of basic food ...

UN Warns of Return to Food Riots

The UN Food agency issued a warning today (Thursday) that the world could see a return of the food riots which swept throught many of the poorest countries in the world in 2007 and 2008.  The recent drought across a large part of the prime ...

$800 Corn – Will Food Inflation Cause Civil Unrest?

As the 'Arab Spring' continues today in Syria it is worth looking back to its beginnings in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011. If you ask most people today what caused the Arab Spring they will tell you that people rose up against corrupt dictators ...