(IPS) – Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
RTT: The journal Nature Climate Change contends that factors such as market policies or oil prices have comparatively little effect…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
(Reuters) – About 4 million hectares of crops are suffering from a severe drought in China that has hit 13…
Oxfam: Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a…
World Bank: A powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the…
IFAD: Representatives of farmers and rural producers from all over the world gathered at the Rome headquarters of the International…
NASA: Coral reefs are spectacular underwater ecosystems. However, they are deteriorating at an alarming rate, due mainly to human activity…
Deloitte: The growing demand for water is making conservation and efficient use central issues, particularly as governments, utilities and the…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate…
Guardian: How can we feed the 2.5 billion more people – an extra China and India – likely to be…
(IPS) Bangladesh: With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant…
Photo: David Longstreath/IRIN
(IRIN) – Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s fertile Mekong Delta are forcing farmers and development…
UNICEF: It’s not a tsunami or an earthquake – it is a predictable emergency. UNICEF estimates more than a million…
UNFCC: Building on recent reviews on climate change impacts on freshwater resources and adaptation strategies, this technical paper analyses existing…
FAO: Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around…
CGIAR: Food systems must shift to better meet human needs and, in the long term, balance with planetary resources. This…
(AlertNet) – In a pediatric hospital in North Korea’s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All…
Climate Central: Climate scientists have been wrestling with the first question for a while now, and they still don’t really…
Oct 12 (Reuters) – Thailand’s worst floods in half a century have inundated farms and mills, squeezing rice supplies from…
FAO: This year’s report focuses on the costs of food price volatility, as well as the dangers and opportunities presented…
FOE: More than 60 per cent of land consumed in Europe is imported while US demand for imported land increased…
Ebeling Heffernan: About 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of paddy fields in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos have been…
CIAT: Over half of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced by smallholders in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, many of…
Paul R. Epstein: With wheat prices surging as major producers are hit by droughts and other extreme weather events,…
AlertNet – Major river basins in Africa, Asia and Latin America could sustainably double food production in some of the poorest…
IPS: Tlapa, one of the poorest places in Mexico, is ravaged by deforestation, intermittent drought and torrential rains, so that…
UPI: The main humanitarian focus is in East Africa, where the catastrophe sweeping the region has been a long time…
Somalia, DR Congo top Maplecroft’s food security risk ranking
A new study assessing the availability and stability of food supplies in 196…
Nairobi/Stockholm, 22 August 2010 – Recognising healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security can…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
USAID: A humanitarian emergency persists across all other regions of southern Somalia, and tens of thousands of excess deaths have…
By Christine Stebbins
CHICAGO, July 26 (Reuters) – Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave…
Scientific American published a three-part series authored by award-winning science journalist John Carey and commissioned by the Pew Center on Global…
FEWS NET/USGS has merged two historical rainfall data sets: interpolated rain gauge data from 1950‐2009 and satellite derived rainfall estimates…
The 2011 Horn of Africa famine is a famine occurring in several regions in the Horn of Africa as a…
LONDON (AlertNet) – One of the most severe droughts in 60 years has hit more than 10 million people in…
ActionAid: Poor rains in the last two wet seasons have led to severe drought across large parts of the Horn…
VIDEO: 30 June 2011 – UNICEF’s Regional Emergency Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa, Robert McCarthy, dicsusses the food crisis…
AlertNet Video: More than ten million people face drought and starvation in the Horn of Africa region as aid agencies…
Uprisings in the Arab world this year remind us how extreme weather can help to create geopolitical chaos by raising…
25 June 2011, Rome – Kofi Annan, chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, has warned that…
BY LESTER R. BROWN | MAY/JUNE 2011
Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact…
BY LESTER BROWN | JANUARY 10, 2011
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the…
A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries…
In some parts of the world, losses due to erosion are greatly outstripping the natural rate of soil formation; and…
