Event: Food, Forests, and Landscapes

A comprehensive survey conducted by an international research organisation has detected varying cost of production of rice in different areas of Bangladesh and found the estimation of that cost by official agencies while fixing procurement prices ...

The agrofuels industry has presented itself as offering an environmental solution to lowering carbon emissions and has depended on heavy subsidies to survive. However, serious questions about pushing up food prices, land grabbing, deforestation and ...

Following the launch of The Lancet series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, visiting IDS Research Fellow and lead Lancet author, Dr. Stuart Gillespie, reflects on the political economy of malnutrition. In this short video, Dr. Gillespie discusses ...

Department of Economics public lecture Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Justin Lin Chair: Professor Danny Quah In June 2008, Justin Lin was appointed chief economist of the World Bank, right before the ...

Although the proposed bill promises to end the food crisis, India's230 million hungry population continues to starve Zoya Rasul Delhi Although India is the largest producer of agri-products including milk and diary and the second largest ...

Up to her last weeks in office, impunity presented itself. For two consecutive days, journalists Jesiderio Camangyan, radio anchor of Sunrise FM in Davao Oriental, and Joselito Agustin of dzJC Aksyon Radyo in Laoag City, were shot dead. After the ...

Deep in Bukuya Sub County in Mubende district, a gold-mining company, AUC Mining Ltd owned by the British and some influential Ugandans, evicted about 400 peasants. At the gate to the mining company, one finds not ordinary security guards but the ...

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canadian government announced the signing of a CDN$15 million (US$14.75 million) grant today with Helen Keller International (HKI) to scale up its flagship Enhanced Homestead Food Production program in four countries in ...

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN New FAO report urges food system changes to eradicate malnutrition JOHANNESBURG, 4 June 2013 (IRIN) - Poor health and losses in productivity caused by malnutrition are costing the global economy US$500 per person per ...