The cost of meat, sugar, rice, wheat and maize soars as the World Bank predicts five years of price volatility.
In the future nearly all the world’s major rivers are expected to come under increased pressure to provide water for farming and industry.
UN chief’s leaked letter fingers ill-considered draft agreement that pitted rich against poor.
Big Oil is holding its breath. BP’s shares are in steep decline after the debacle in the Gulf of Mexico.
An investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies.
Africa’s economic prosperity is being undermined by Western farming. John Vidal reports.
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/ 10 January 2010
Environmental campaigner Paul Watson has lost one of his boats in a confrontation but is determined to save the oceans from "the greed of man".
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/ 18 December 2009
Until now Copenhagen’s most famous citizen was a girl with a fishy tail sitting on a rock. No more.
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/ 7 November 2009
At 8am on Wednesday October 7, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok.
The European Union and rich nations are making themselves inaccessible to the press in Bangkok and the developing countries are furious.