Lima bean soup
A hearty, nutritious soup that will feed 10 - 12 people for lunch or supper.
Biotech industry accused of masking decline in GM crops
Campaingers accused the biotech industry on Tuesday of using misleading figures to mask declining cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe.
Financial speculators and the food crisis
Original source: DUBAI, 8 February 2009 (IRIN) - A food security expert has said that the involvement of financial markets in basic food commodities was the biggest factor in the worldwide food price hikes over the past couple of years.
UN calls for food aid from rich countries
THE UN urged rich countries on Monday to stump up the aid that they pledged at a food crisis summit last year after riots had erupted in underdeveloped countries over soaring prices.
Trade conference focus is food sovereignty
MADISON, Wisc. – Long before Food First author Frances Moore Lappé took the stage to contribute her expertise, food policy had emerged as a central theme of the grassroots trade policy conference held here April 26-27. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information, visit FamilyFarmer.org.
