New food labels will be coming soon to the front of food packages in the United States, intended to provide a better warning to consumers by displaying measurements such as calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar. The food industry, however, is pushing to include two positive labels, or “nutrients to encourage,” such as fiber, potassium, […]
Due to technical difficulties, the GFS blog was offline for a short time. Now that we are up and running, we will have some new posts shortly. To get caught up, you might first read what other bloggers on the Foreign Policy Blog network have written recently about food issues: Make sure your Valentine flowers […]
I’m a Paul Krugman devotee. (How can you not be?) His column from this past Monday, Droughts, Floods and Food, had nothing but good sense: rapidly rising food prices have mostly to do with bad weather, namely the fires and drought in Russia and Ukraine this past summer and the floods in Queensland this winter. […]
I’m an old New Yorker man from way back. I’ve noted any number of terrific New Yorker stories here, from George Packer and Ryan Lizza on the failures of the Senate on climate and energy legislation, to the authoritative Betsy Kolbert on nearly anything and everything relative to sustainability and the environment. Hendrik Hertzberg is […]
(Sorry to have been a while away from the blog, but last week was pretty busy and then we got away for some lovely skiing. Snow can be a wonderful thing. My sympathies, of course, do go out to those of you who are suffering at home, or in your travels, from the very heavy […]
(Here’s a great graphic from DOE’s Energy Information Administration that shows how we deploy energy in the US. Gas is a big factor.) I caught this comprehensive but succinct item at the NYT recently: Time to Tap the Bounty of U.S. Natural Gas. It lays out the fact of the astonishing ballooning of new, proven […]
African Union (AU) chair Bingu wa Mutharika announced a plan to make Africa food secure in the next five years, according to IRIN. The plan, detailed in a document entitled The African Food Basket, “Requires countries to allocate a substantial portion of their budget to agriculture, provide farming input subsidies, and make available affordable information […]
Are rising global food prices here to stay? Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute thinks so, and warns that things will only get worse in the face of climate change, increasing population, water scarcity, and soil erosion. In “The Great Food Crisis of 2011” published in Foreign Policy Magazine, Brown argued the difference between […]
(For more on this graphic, go here.) The venerable Matt Wald at the NY Times reported the other day that CO2 emissions in the US peaked in 2005 and, according to the latest estimates, we’re not going back to those numbers until ten years down the road. How come? In part – and in part […]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has released their “Rural Poverty Report” for 2011. Some of the major points of the report are as follows: The population of the developing world is still more rural than urban: some 3.1 billion people, or 55% of the total population, live in rural areas. At least 70% […]
Read recent posts from the Foreign Policy Blog network that also relate to food security issues. Yuppies to the Rescue from the Development Aid blog As Goes the Price of Corn from the Mexico blog Enjoy!
As a phenomenon like the continuing production and growing stocks of greenhouse gases by our industrial societies intensifies, it creates a warming effect that thaws the cryosphere – that part of the planet that is frozen. So, more melting gives more dark surfaces which leads to the earth absorbing more solar radiation which makes it […]
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