portion of the blame for a spike in global food prices was associated with growth of the United States’ corn ethanol industry …. The critique is based on an unsophisticated portrayal of the ethical issues at stake in the food security implications of … biofuel. Three ethical critiques can be leveled at the food<i> vs.</i> fuel debate. First, although market drivers of biofuels …

to regional and global food security. …

soils to support crop growth, which has significant ramifications for food security. Therefore, further study of soil …-climate interactions in a changing world is critical to addressing future food security concerns. …

Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress has been made in the … past half century in bringing most of the population out of poverty and hunger. Measured by the key determinants of food … security—improved availability, access, utilisation and stability—food security has never been at higher levels. Large pockets …

food aid. …

) traits have the potential to make an important contribution to addressing major global environmental and food security … contribute to increasing food production by extending the economic frontier of cropping on high P sorption and P deficient soils …

rice production collected information on workload, inputs and productivity of cropping systems together with food … food security in the villages and offer paid labor to landless residents. Greater yields of rice, greater irrigation water … options to increase return to inputs. Success here would remove the food contribution from traditional agriculture currently …

adequate than mothers' diets under conditions of food scarcity. Data on Amazonian mothers and their children, household … demography and economics and direct, weighed measures of household food availability and dietary intakes of mother–child pairs … were collected from 51 households to address the following research questions: (1) is there evidence of food scarcity in …

Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … and where they are, why they risk food insecurity and what options exist to reduce their vulnerability. Using the … households. Even though Orissa is virtually self-sufficient in food grains, there is a significant prevalence of food insecurity …

Abstract Urban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound … countries. Our understanding of the importance, and food security implications of urban agriculture is however plagued by a lack … international perspective the importance of urban agriculture for the urban poor and food insecure. On the one hand, the potential …