World food price crisis
Freer farmers equals cheaper food
IPN Opinion article
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization last week predicted another food price crisis although it expects harvests to rise too. But the US Department of Agriculture has just lowered its soy and maize forecast for the year. Clearly, there's going to be a problem. Eminent economist Douglas Southgate explains how production can increase massively on existing agricultural land, without deforestation and regardless of the potential of GM crops, just by removing the many barriers to agricultural and economic efficiency that are created by governments.
EU pesticide ban will raise food prices without improving health, says former government scientist
IPN Press release
Remove tariffs and subsidies on agriculture to help the poor adapt to climate change, say civil society groups
IPN Press release
How bad government caused the food crisis
IPN Opinion article
Recent shortages and price rises of staple food in Asia and Latin America have been caused as much by parasitical politicians as by poor harvests.
The Food Crisis and Restrictive Trade Practices
IPN Opinion article
The food crisis in Nigeria and Africa can be linked to inappropriate agricultural policies that have stifled the continent's great agricultural potential. Over the years nothing has been done to address low yields--on the contrary, it seems as though government has gone out of its way to stifle production: governments remain part of the problem, not part of the solution.
