Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations ended a two-day meeting in Osaka, Japan Saturday with a wide-ranging statement addressing oil and food prices, and troubled financial markets.

New research suggests that the average supermarket shopper is willing to pay a premium price for locally produced foods, providing some farmers an attractive option to enter a niche market that could boost their revenues.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to urge world leaders on Tuesday to immediately suspend or eliminate many price controls and other agricultural trade restrictions in an urgent appeal to bring down soaring food prices.

Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who studied the environmental impacts of food production and distribution in the United States. The study is scheduled for the May 15 issue of ACS’s bi-weekly journal Environmental Science & Technology.

The old adage, “We are what we eat,’’ may be the latest recipe for success when it comes to curbing the perils of global climate warming.

In the face of growing pressure on one of Asia’s most important food production systems, experts are warning that farmers must get more help to make them more efficient.

UN aid workers and rights groups say high food prices have helped drive Burma's people onto the streets, and the junta's bloody crackdown has only worsened the threat of hunger and malnutrition.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a special session in Rome, Italy, to discuss the impact of climate change on world food security.

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Global warming will likely hit food production in developing nations the hardest, increasing the risks of drought and famine in the countries that already struggle to feed their populations, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.

A NASA researcher has developed a new method to anticipate food shortages brought on by drought. Molly Brown of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and her colleagues created a model using data from satellite remote sensing of crop growth and food prices.

Scientists from three leading UK research institutes have released new findings that could have major implications for food production and global warming in the 21st century. Their research is published online in Nature (25 July 2007).