Showing posts with label food policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food policy. Show all posts
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Global Food & Agriculture Memo: Afghanistan Expanding Pomegranate Farming, Launching $12 Million U.S.-Funded Marketing and Export Program

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Ali Akbar, an Afghan pomegranate seller, arranges his product during the World Pomegranate Fair in Badam Bagh Farm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Th...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Global Food & Agriculture Memo: Will Parts of the Underdeveloped World Become the New Breadbaskets for Companies and Nations in the Developed World?

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The practice of tenant farming primarily by family farmers was a common practice in the United States and elsewhere in the western more-deve...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Food Safety Memo: U.S. President-Elect Obama Said to Plan On Beefing Up FDA Enforcement, Regulations; Speculation Rampant On New FDA Chief

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USA: Election 2008 Special Report For the last few years under the administration of President George W. Bush, the United States has experie...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Food & Society Guest Memo: While It Won't Result in Starvation; Japan Faces Self-Created Butter Shortage None the Less

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Butter spread thin in Japan Bread is buttered on neither side as the milk product has become hard to find. There are reasons, but try tellin...

Food & Society Guest Memo: Policies That Are Making Global Food Crisis Worse

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Policies that are making food crisis worse Rich, poor countries alike contribute to the problem By SEBASTIAN MALLABY We are now several mont...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Food & Society Memo: The Poor Get Diabetes, the Rich Get Local and Organic

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In an excerpt from his new book, Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty , Mark Winne, a writer and the longtime dir...