Over the weekend I read a bit about Rand Paul's efforts to fundraise off an alleged United Nations plot to confiscate your guns, but they turn out to be up to something considerably more insidious—they want us all to eat more insects.

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Global food policies and politics are major impediments to producing enough food to feed the world’s growing population, according to Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University.

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The 2001 World Food Prize Laureate said the world can produce enough food to feed its growing population, but global food policies and politics are major impediments.

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U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that climate change would increase their frequency and severity.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President Evo Morales of Bolivia and First Lady Nadine Heredia Alarcón de Humala of Peru were among the high-level participants in a day-long series of events celebrating the Andean "super food", a highly nutritious, cereal-like crop.

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The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Environment Programme and their partners are moving to reduce global food waste.

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But 10 months after University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced the largest grant ever awarded to the system's flagship campus by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the wheels are turning on a project that involves 49 scientists and 11 institutions.

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Nearly one-quarter of the world’s livestock breeds are at risk for extinction, and that has the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concerned.

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Almost 870 million people – one in eight – are chronically undernourished, according to the latest State of Food Insecurity in the World report, published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' Food Price Index, which monitors a basket of internationally traded food commodities, averaged 216 points last month, up three points or 1.4 percent from August.

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On Oct 4th, people around the globe celebrated World Animal Day

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The United Nations said a jump in food prices had run out of steam, even as it ditched expectations of a rise in world grains production, and inventories, citing droughts in Russia and the US.

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UN warns of risk of African swine fever in Caucasus region.

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The world could face a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08 if countries restrict exports on concerns about a drought-fuelled grain price rally, the UN's food agency warned on Thursday, after reporting a surge in global food prices in July.

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A report issued by the United Nations-backed Global Commission on HIV and the Law; recommends that nations around the world get rid of “punitive” laws against prostitution – or what it calls “consensual sex work” -- and decriminalize the voluntary use of illegal injection drugs in order to combat the HIV epidemic.

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The world needs to take a hard look at speculation on the financial markets and its potential impact on food price volatility, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today at a high-level debate on the issue at FAO Headquarters in Rome.

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The United Nations warned that weather setbacks, which prompted it to slash 25m tonnes from its forecast for the US corn harvest, look set to revive food prices, after a decline to a 21-month low.

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A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals, such as tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever, has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths a year.

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The U.N. Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) are joining forces to combat foot and mouth disease (FMD) on a global scale, laying out a detailed strategy June 27 to bring the devastating livestock disease under control.

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Global food prices measured by the FAO Food Price Index fell three points or 1.4 percent from March to April 2012 but seem to have stabilized at a relatively high level of 214 points, FAO said.

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The United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs has released a new report, “Food and Agriculture: The Future of Sustainability.”

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Kemin Industries and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have announced a new 5-year public-private partnership to improve the safety and quality of WFP’s food basket.

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Without immediate action and a global shift in priorities, the world will not be able to feed its growing population in the coming decades, according to a new report from a United Nations panel. The UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability released its report, titled “Resilient people, resilient planet,” this week.

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British police want to question Des Ekin at Sunday World over alleged bribery allegations in relation to phone hacking scandal.

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The new head of the U.N. food agency said Tuesday he expects food prices to stay volatile in 2012 — and more people to go hungry.

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The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Food Price Index, which measures the monthly change in international prices for five basic food commodities, declined 6% year-on-year in December, averaging 211 points. While easing since the record highs of February 2011, the fall in December represents the first year-on-year decline since October 2009.

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MORE than 300,000 Australians have found a way to help to feed the world's poorest people - by signing up to play an online game.

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The new head of the U.N. food agency said Tuesday he expects food prices to stay volatile in 2012 — and more people to go hungry.

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The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has launched a global campaign to raise public awareness of what it has identified as better animal welfare, environmental sustainability and the economy.

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People: New FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva

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WSPA has launched a global campaign to improve the lives of tens of millions of farm animals worldwide. The organization is working to raise public awareness of the inherent relationship between better animal welfare, the environmental and economic sustainability, and also urging people to sign a letter to put animal welfare on the agenda at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio +20 ) in June 2012.

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Envoys at United Nations talks are near an agreement that would set up a fund channeling a portion of the $100 billion a year in pledged climate aid to developing nations, part of a package to keep a lid on global warming.

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The United Nations highlighted the mounting use by livestock farmers of relatively-cheap wheat even as it raised estimates for world stocks of the grain, citing better-than-expected harvests.

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This also marks the beginning of a fundamental transition in the global food and agriculture sector. The prices of commodities will rise further and there will be increased volatility.

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Bernard Trevor Matthews CVO, CBE (24th January 1930 - 25th November 2010) was the founder of Bernard Matthews Limited, a company that is best-known for farming turkeys and producing turkey products. Bernard Matthews was born in 1930 in Brooke, Norfolk, the son of a mechanic. Matthews worked as a trainee livestock auctioneer at Waters & Son between 1946 and 1948;

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Global food prices will likely remain high due to robust fundamentals despite worries of a broadening crisis in the euro zone, Pedro Herrera, HSBC's senior vice president global research for Latin American equities, said Monday.

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FAO has urged for heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly bird flu virus is spreading in Asia and beyond, with unpredictable risks to human health.

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Forget the regular media and make your own mind up. As an Englisman an with a Jewish mother I cannot find any fault with the facts as I remember most of them. (Iran are the main beef and poultry buyers in South America today replacing Russia)

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Fears of a major global food shortage appear to have abated since the first part of the year, with food prices declining slightly from their peak and prospects for the overall supply slightly brighter.

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40% of farm produce never gets to the market and another 25% is wasted by supermakets and families in the western world waste 25% of all food bought, so where is the bloody food shortage. July 11 is World population Day, and the Worldwatch Institute is promoting agricultural strategies, not only to feed a growing population, but to provide jobs, economic stability and environmental health.

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Meat prices could average 30pc higher over the coming decade while cereal prices could average 20pc higher compared with the last decade, according to a new report by the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development.

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World food prices rose in June as the cost of sugar, meat and dairy increased, adding to inflationary pressure that has prompted central banks across the world to raise interest rates.

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When you consider that 40% of food produced is wasted, then you realize there is no food shortage. The global food system is environmentally destructive and requires “radical” changes if it is to meet rising food demands, says a new United Nations report.

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USDA lowered its forecast for 2011 total U.S. meat production from last month as lower beef production more than offsets higher expected pork and turkey production in its World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report.

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40% of farm produced never gets to the market and another 25% is wasted by supermakets whilr families in the western world waste 25% of all food bought, so where is the bloody food shortage. July 11 is World population Day, and the Worldwatch Institute is promoting agricultural strategies, not only to feed a growing population, but to provide jobs, economic stability and environmental health.

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The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020 says that a good harvest in the coming months should push commodity prices down from the extreme levels seen earlier this year. However, the Outlook states that over the coming decade real prices for cereals could average as much as 20 per cent higher and those for meats as much as 30 per cent higher, compared to 2001-10. These projections are well below the peak price levels experienced in 2007-08 and again this year.

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Cereal prices could average 20 percent higher and meat prices 30 percent higher over the coming decade, compared with the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Although the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Food Price Index has fallen slightly in the past few months, the latest May figure is only five points behind the historic high of February. The FAO food price index, which measures the monthly change in international prices for five basic food commodities was up 37% year-on-year in May and 43% on the five-year average to 232 points.

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On May 26 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) asked affected countries to increase precautionary measures and for a concerted international effort to prevent the African Swine Fever (ASF) infection spreading more widely across the Northern Hemisphere. FAO also warned of a likely imminent upsurge of the disease in the Caucasus region and Russian Federation.

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Food prices remained virtually steady in April after falling in March following eight months of successive increases.

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The United Nations' food agency flagged worries over corn supplies as it revealed that food prices had resumed their upward path last month, boosted by a recovery in grain prices.

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FAO alerts on three pesticides and industrial chemicals United Nations chemical experts have recommended that two pesticides - endosulfan and azinphos methyl - and one severely hazardous pesticide formulation - Gramoxone Super - be included in the Rotterdam Convention's Prior Informed Consent procedure.

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The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its 2011 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report this week, just in time for today’s International Women’s Day. The report illustrates how better investments in female farmers would prevent malnourishment in 100-150 million people, because of the ways women are likely to allocate resources in a food-shortage-threatened world.

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The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index hit its second straight record last month, driven by rising grain costs and tighter supply to further pass peaks seen in 2008 when prices sparked riots in several countries.

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Researchers need to use all available resources in an integrated approach to put agriculture on a path to solve the world's food problems while reducing pollution, according to a Penn State biologist. Changes in national and international regulations will be necessary to achieve this goal.

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The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) food price index, which measures the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, reached record levels in January 2011.

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Food prices are skyrocketing across the world, and last month, they peaked to the highest levels since the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization began indexing them in 1990. In the Middle East, wheat prices are playing a role in the ongoing unrest, particularly in Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer. Laurie Garrett, CFR's senior fellow for global health, says the rising prices of staple grains in the region are adding to a "real sense of anger and injustice." She notes that though governments are attempting to hold prices down artificially, "very few governments can really get away with it because they just can't afford it." The food price crisis, she says, is "a destabilizing moment in terms of global governance" and to meet food demand going forward, the food production in the developing world must become more efficient and "every aspect of farming, harvesting, delivery, and distribution has to improve dramatically."

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Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society, producing chaos and political unrest.

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FAO food prices index marks record; threat for global growth and social stability

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The United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organization's 55-commodity index of world food prices takes out the June 2008 reading associated with food riots in numerous locales. By Howard Simons, Minyanville.com, Jan 10, 2011 7:50 am

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