Peak oil
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.
Rising food prices, protectionism and the poor
IPN Opinion article
Food prices have drastically risen over the past year, causing street protests from Mexico to India to Senegal; it is the poorest countries that will benefit most from dropping their own tariffs in response to this.
Food aid and the roots of scarcity
IPN Opinion article
Luther Tweeten analyses a recent report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. He writes, "THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has at last admitted that food aid can distort local markets, helping to perpetuate the conditions that demand food aid in the first place. But it does not go far enough in addressing the root causes of famines, which persist amid plenty."
