Future shock: Insects are almost certainly going to be a bigger part of your diet in the future. Present shock:…
Women and children wait to be treated at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Leer,…
UgandaIamNotUnique A world-wide hunger problem with a continuing growing population means that food is increasingly important. Some 842 million people…
The disaster following Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines rightly has dominated the global twenty-four hour news cycle. Humanosphere has devoted…
Food prices go up and people revolt, right? Maybe not. Conflict does lead to food insecurity. That makes sense because…
Many experts say that the current system of how the U.S. government does food aid is plenty corrupted – at least if you assume the goal is to feed the poor and hungry. The current system requires that we buy the food from American farmers and ship it on American-flagged vessels. No other country does food aid this way, because it is so inefficient and, well, blatantly self-serving.
Just about any story about food or nutrition will contain the rather amorphous phrase: food security. Many, including me, don’t…
As if there was any doubt that malnutrition was a bad thing, it now comes with a hefty price tag…
Flickr, aed10e Maybe this is getting so little media attention because it’s in Norway. At any rate, it’s worth noting…
Researchers at McGill University have mapped out the longer-term impact of climate change on human health and well-being. If populations…