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11 February 2009

The Coming Food Coups

The doubling of grain prices over the past two years has already set off violent protests in over 30 developing countries and led to the overthrow of the Haitian prime minister Jacques Edouard Alexis. Even so, the potential political and security consequences have been given little attention, writes Andrew Natsios.
The Washington Quarterly
10 February 2009

Food For Peace: Eisenhower's Unsung Initiative Can Be Obama's Most Powerful Tool for Peace

As President Obama tackles enormous foreign policy challenges, he would be well-advised to extract good ideas from past administrations and carry forward this "better part of history," writes William Lambers.
History News Network
10 February 2009

Our Culture of Wasting Food Will One Day Leave Us Hungry

All the talk of genetically modifying crops would be unnecessary if the supermarkets - and consumers - weren't so wasteful, says Alex Renton.
The Observer
12 January 2009

The Politics of Hunger

Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms, and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies. So says Oxford University professor Paul Collier in this essay for Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
12 January 2009

Investing in Early Childhood Nutrition

It has long been known that good nutrition is essential to children’s physical and cognitive development, but recent evidence sheds new light on the optimal timing of interventions to improve child nutrition. Marie Ruel and John Hoddinott produced this policy paper for IFPRI.
IFPRI