There are fears that food has become too expensive for the very poor. We look at the debate about solutions. Organic farming? More chemicals? Vegetarianism? GMO’s? The market? Government interference?
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Why we posted this: McDonald’s may be recession-proof - and may even be outliving the snobbery which has surrounded the firm for decades. More »
Themes: Food / Money / The Good Corporation. Posted by Paul Seaman on August 7th, 2008
Why we posted this: Two important but probably silly books have had silly (politically-correct and right-on) reviews in right-of-centre papers. We need to work out why. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on July 18th, 2008
Why we posted this: Here we post some wonderful (and mercifully concise) ways into issues like feeding the world and African agriculture. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on June 11th, 2008
Why we posted this: Anti-GM campaigners feel very free to say the likes of Monsanto are liars - especially when the firms say they can help the Third World. The campaigners are making a very serious charge. Let’s check it out.. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on May 30th, 2008
Why we posted this: Paul Collier is valuable and realistic on helping the “bottom billion”. More »
Themes: Food / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: It’s the beginning of serious thinking about a major new problem. More »
Themes: Food / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: The Daily Telegraph usefully helped us see that Jamie Oliver’s “successful” school dinners campaign may have done harm as well as good (as well as being loud-mouthed and sometimes misinformed). More »
Themes: Campaigning / Food / Media / Pressure Politics. Posted by Richard D North on April 9th, 2008