Food rights experts are asking Africa to be wary of land grabbing by foreign companies who want to produce bio-fuel crops and food for their home markets
Women farmers in Africa produce over 80 per cent of the continent's food supply, yet lack recognition, property rights and nutrition, says the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance.
A Kenyan theologian and ecologist is warning that foreign companies using land in Africa to grow food and bio-fuel crops are undermining food security.
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance says that if one sixth of the world's population is hungry when there is sufficient food to feed the world, action to address root causes is needed.
Land rights in Brazil have fuelled conflict at every level within the country for more than 500 years, writes Pascale Palmer, exploring the issues that lie behind Brazil’s “agricultural miracle” and the struggle to feed the planet in the face of both need and greed.
There are a billion hungry people in the world today, most of them in Asia, says Shay Cullen. Tackling hunger is both an issue of justice and a challenge to faith.