UN response to food crisis: press relase

UN just put out a press release describing their modus operandi to address the current global food crisis. Click here to check it out

Another factor for the food equation

Excellent series of articles put together by NY Times about the consequences of increased fertilizer prices on the world food crisis:The Food ChainShortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: FertilizerBy KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTINPublished: April 30, 2008Shrinking grain stocks and an increasing appetite for meat have collided with a shortage of fertilizer

lots of jobs from DevEx

click on Read More to see them allA. HIGHLIGHTED JOBSPartnerships and Refugee & Asylum Seekers Initiative AdministratorThe Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial FundLocation: London, UKLast Date: May 12, 2008http://216.197.119.113/jobman/publish/article_45578.shtmlShort-Term Experts: Organizational Training for ProducerOrganizationsACDI/VOCALocation: MaliLast Date: May 30, 2008http://216.197.119.113/

Don Marcos and the snake

Hi there!i just came back from working all day at the garden. The day was perfect; sunny, a little windy, and a very loose soil after two days of rain. Marcos, a dishwasher at the restaurant where i have a part-time, showed me how corn and beans are cultivated in his native Honduras.Whenever i meet a latino, i always ask them what they grew. Their reaction to the question is one of surprise to

Ag Econ Paper

Ag Econ Papers are here, fresh from the oven. Click on "read more" to see them all, or click on the label to see older post with same content. You can also do a search by topic here.Looking for a lighter read, check out other posts about media coverage of the world food crisis.http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=28363ORGANIC FARMING IN DENMARK ? PRODUCTIVITY, TECHNICAL CHANGE

News, World Food Prices

Hi there,HERE a must-read three day report put together by the Washington Post with multimedia, analysis and graphics about the global food crisis. Also NPR's To the Point had their program dedicated to the irony of record food prices and record US commodity subsidies.

the 'Gates' are open

Hi there,how is the new header? i took that picture a couple months ago in a village an hour away from Lome, Togo. Under the Neem tree, the women and the men had gathered to discuss with extension agents from IFDC the latest harvest and how it was affected by the use of Macuna, a legume grown as cover crop. They were very happy as their cassava yields were clearly increased. Cheap nitrogen and

NYT Better Roses Than Cocaine

New York Times oped on the need for economic partnership with Colombia.Link

Ag Econ Paper

Below, a list of agricultural economics journals publications. I used to post these every time a new list would be sent out.Here, the is a link other post with more publication, or you can go to University of Minesota, AgEcon Search. TILES (full records with URLs follow):*Transition and foreign trade: the case of the Ukrainian agri-food sector*Informal barriers, agricultural trade, and the Euro

Paul Polak and my garden

Today, after three days in a row of pretty intense showers here in Washington, the sun showed up and i decided to work on my plot at the Blair Community Garden. This year i'm planning to go big on beans, as many variety as i can find. So i had to go to the hardware store to get some nails and rope to star working on the structure for the pole beans. On my way back, NPR broadcast an interview to

Donate to WFP

World Food Program has now a website where you can donate money online towards their effort to address the current food crisis. Remember that such crisis is unprecedented and in a time where food inventories are at its lowest, everybody's help is necesary. Follow linkFill the Cup Campaign

Event: Assessing the Current Food Crisis

Hi readers,For those of you in the Washington metropolitan area here is another timely event to discuss the current food crisis. Organized by UNA-USA's Council of Organizations and the American Public Health Association, and with speakers from USAID and WFP this presentation comes as the "quiet tsunami" continues throughout the developing world. For those attending, i suggest an earlier post on

WP Article: Ethanol's Failed Promise

Good article published today by WP and written by Lester Brown and Jonathan Lewis about the urgent need to reevaluate the US policies towards biofuels, specially corn ethanol.It would be interesting to see a similar analysis with sugar cane ethanol and its impact in world prices; does this efficient way to produce energy outweighs its effect on the world food prices?..By Lester Brown and Jonathan

Taking Stock of the Doha Round Agricultural Negotiations:

Hello ReadersI've been busy changing the layout of the blog to make the resources offered more accessible, so stay tunned as this blog will look very different sometime soon.For Washingtonians, another excellent presentation by IFPRI:Taking Stock of the Doha Round Agricultural Negotiations: Where are we and what does it really mean for the U.S.? Thursday, May 1, 2008 Rayburn House

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For Young Professionals

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