R.J. Ruppenthal, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 23, 2009. What if each of us could produce just 10 percent of our own food at home? What a huge difference that would make.
Lester R. Brown, Climate Progress. October 14, 2009. The world renown environmentalist writes about his new book and lays out the devastating impacts unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases will have on food and water.
Timothy LaSalle, AlterNet. September 29, 2009. There's no honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture in playing a leading role in actually feeding people.
Sasha Abramsky, PoliPoint Press. July 4, 2009. America's poor are being priced out of a market flush with excess eatables. It's an abomination we can fix.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 11, 2009. Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In an economic crisis, it can be hell.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. April 30, 2009. The new working poor, as well as more families with young children, are threatening to overwhelm New York City's last hunger safety net.
Michael T. Klare, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 20, 2009. As the wealthier nations cease investing in the developing world or acquiring its exports, the crisis is hitting them with a vengeance.
Joel Berg, Seven Stories. February 4, 2009. In a country with enough food and money to feed the world twice over, 1-in-8 people struggles to put food on his or her table.
Frances Moore Lappe, Huffington Post. August 18, 2008. Morning Edition's recent series on the food crisis reinforces dangerous myths that actually block us from seeing the real solutions to hunger.
Bruce Friedrich, AlterNet. June 25, 2008. Corn and wheat used to feed chicken, pigs and other farmed animals is food being diverted from the mouths of the global poor.
Walden Bello, The Nation. May 23, 2008. In the years preceding Mexico's tortilla crisis, the country had been converted to a corn-importer by the IMF, the World Bank and Washington.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 1, 2008. If our government and large food and energy interests don't change direction, the food riots in distant lands will soon be coming to their doors.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 24, 2008. Cheney and members of "Sportsmen Against Hunger" are attaching themselves to charitable causes to put a positive spin on killing animals.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. April 18, 2008. It's better for the planet to avoid eating meat, but the reality is we have to make it more sustainable for people who don't want to be vegetarians.
Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 2008. Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 and will likely keep rising in 2008.
Abid Aslam, IPS News. November 28, 2007. More than one in 10 people in the United States go hungry, according to government figures suggesting its food programs are falling short in the world's wealthiest country.
