Nairobi unveils five key reform measures to address food insecurity in Ethiopia. One top plan: increase the acreage of food production four times, partly by putting arid and semi-arid areas under irrigation. What stress will this cause to water? How can Christians help Ethiopia?
Since 2005, the prices of staples have jumped 80 per cent. Last month, the real price of rice hit a 19-year high; wheat, a 28-year high and almost twice the average price of the last 25 years. Issues: children, as young as four or five, are forced to flee the safety of their rural communities [...]
by Justin Long
We’ve written quite a bit about the looming energy crisis due to the (eventual) peak in oil. In this issue we look at the ‘other’ oil crisis: cooking oil. This oil shock is occurring because of a global increase in the price of food. Unlike a rise in the price of barrels of [...]