CU-Boulder: While 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining…
UBC: Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters,…
Guardian: Potsdam Institute projection suggests population growth would increase imported food, even without climate change.
Although many countries choose to import…
Guardian: Drought, rocketing bread prices, food and water shortages have all blighted parts of the Middle East. Analysts at the…
Vietnam.net: Final results of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded study, that were released at a regional workshop…
Global Crop Diversity Trust: New Pact Invests US$109 Million to Secure Raw Genetic Material Critical to Maintaining Food Production Worldwide
Concerned that…
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per annum. Yet due to…
CIAT: Higher temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns could transform the agricultural landscape of Central America, threatening the livelihoods of…
(AlertNet) – Climate change is a major threat to the world’s food supply and to biodiversity, and prompt action to…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Malnutrition is likely to be the most serious health threat linked to climate shifts in the coming…
TED Talks: Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t…
InterAction Council: The world today confronts a water crisis with critical implications for peace, political stability and economic development, experts…
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Ukraine to Yellowstone, in Pakistan and Kazakhstan, the earth is parched
* Drought in the Black Sea region…
World Bank: Global food prices soared by 10 percent in July from a month ago, with maize and soybean reaching…
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies: Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale…
NASA: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming
Columbia University: This year’s Midwest heat wave and some other recent extreme…
FAO: The severe deterioration of maize crop prospects in the United States following extensive drought damage pushed up maize prices…
Oxford Research Group: Rising food prices point to a potential crisis later this year as poor communities across the world…
treehugger: The drought gets worse: The US Drought Monitor reports that areas on the nation under extreme drought conditions in…
NOAA: Based on the Palmer Drought Index, severe to extreme drought affected about 33 percent of the contiguous United States…
ThinkProgress: The U.S. Agriculture Department has issued a natural disaster declaration for more than 1,000 U.S. counties facing severe drought. This…
IIASA: A new online data portal developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the…
RTCC: Overfishing, warming waters, ocean acidification and pollution are all terms we are becoming more aware of as it slowly…
RTT: The journal Nature Climate Change contends that factors such as market policies or oil prices have comparatively little effect…
BGS: Robust quantitative groundwater maps for Africa were developed to highlight areas more likely to be resilient to climate change…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
IFAD: Representatives of farmers and rural producers from all over the world gathered at the Rome headquarters of the International…
Photo: David Longstreath/IRIN
(IRIN) – Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s fertile Mekong Delta are forcing farmers and development…
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…
(Reuters) – Thailand is struggling with its worst flooding in 50 years, which has affected a third of its provinces…
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…
Paul R. Epstein: With wheat prices surging as major producers are hit by droughts and other extreme weather events,…
AfricaNews: As the devastating drought causes havoc on the Horn of Africa region the number of people affected is staggering.…
FAO: Heavy monsoon rains that began in mid-August destroyed or damaged 73 percent of crops and 67 percent of food stocks…
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…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
LOKICHOGGIO, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) – Cross-border armed conflict over resources among Turkana pastoralists in northeastern Kenya has increased following…
By Christine Stebbins
CHICAGO, July 26 (Reuters) – Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave…
ActionAid: Poor rains in the last two wet seasons have led to severe drought across large parts of the Horn…
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…
After the earth was created, soil formed slowly over geological time from the weathering of rocks. It began to support…
BY LESTER R. BROWN | MAY/JUNE 2011
Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact…
