Feeding the poor today and everyone on the planet tomorrow: What are the issues, and what can be done to avert a global food crisis? 59 Articles

by Marie Devine

The global food crisis in our times is more often not a lack of food; it is a need to remove the obstacles to having that food available. Poverty comes in many forms and from many sources. For some it is the sudden loss ...read more

by Patricia Stewart

Feeding the world needs to be looked at as a sustainability problem, not an "immediate response," problem. By definition, people used to know how to feed themselves, or people wouldn't live in certain areas of the world. I...read more

by Rich Rivers

Amid the global financial crisis and other global critical issues pushed into the hands of international leaders, a more important issue has surfaced that needed immediate action. Issues about food crisis has long been a ...read more

by Satyabroto Banerji

Famines and locusts separate the era which started in the second half of the 20th century from earlier times. North Korea and large parts of Africa continue to wrestle with inhumane food shortages, but the Irish potato fam...read more

by Sangeeta Deogawanka

The April 17,2008, issue of The Economist mentions "The food crisis of 2008 may become a challenge to globalization." Indeed the prime consideration facing the policy makers at this juncture is not just averting a global c...read more

by Colette Georgii

Hunger and global food deprivation: Issues and solutions Food riots and protests have broken out worldwide in Cambodia, Indonesia, Egypt, Haiti, and Africa. Food riots in Africa are reported in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivo...read more

by Rich Browne

Feeding the poor today and everyone on the planet tomorrow: What are the issues, and what can be done to avert a global food crisis? The problem facing the world today is not so much a factor of supply as it is distribut...read more

by Joseph Saronge

How we can Avert Global Food Crisis There are various ways in which to tackle the world food crisis and the approaches vary from one region to another. In the case of the most affected areas of the world, where food shor...read more

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by M DePaul

Water Crisis The commercialization of water for profit is oppression and greed in its worst form. Withholding a natural element that is to be given freely is the embodiment of evil. It is not money that is evil; ...read more

by E. V. SHAW

With all the agricultural knowledge of today, there should never be a global food crisis. Although, rice is a staple and filling, it is not enough in itself to feed the body all the nutrients needed to function properly, ...read more

by Jean-Yves Landry

The global food crisis today leaves over 800 million people starving, with thousands dying daily. The food issue surely is a complicated one. Is there any way to feed an additional 800 million people using knowledge we al...read more

by Kathy Penney

Feeding the people is concentrating the minds of many; it is a problem today in the undeveloped world and, if we do not take steps immediately, it will be a problem in the future for the whole world, Western society includ...read more

by Ron N. Sullivan

Indonesian food riots spread. Government declares emergency. Food riots turn deadly in Haiti: four people killed, twenty people wounded. Bangladesh workers riot over soaring food prices. News story headlines like these po...read more

by Avil Beckford

Statistics like "Hunger and poverty claim 25,000 lives every day... The number of chronically hungry people worldwide is growing by an average of four million per year at current trends... More than 60 percent of chronical...read more

by Nestor Encinas

Food and water are the only two critical items needed for human survival. Without these two essentials, we all perish. Human survival is dependent on a complex relations of a myriad of factors like population growth, cli...read more

by Birupakshya Dixit

One question always comes to my mind- we should think of today or we must think for tomorrow. Definitely most of the people will say we should do the both. That is right also. But I would like to say that the way we think ...read more

by David Brown

Wow, this is a open-ended title. There is so much to be said here about feeding the poor today and everyone on the planet tomorrow. The issues are plentiful, and there is a great deal that can be done to avert a global f...read more

by William Del Grande

Feeding the poor or helping the poor in general is a task that needs much thought and consideration. A solid game plan is needed in order to construct such a challenging endeavor. First we must have a greater understanding...read more