The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today called for increased investment in a plant breeding technique that could bolster efforts aimed at pulling millions of people out of the hunger trap.

Researchers from Boston Medical Center have recently found that as household energy insecurity increases, the odds of infants and toddlers experiencing food insecurity, negative health, hospitalizations and developmental risks also increases.

France is expected to urge the European Union to place greater priority on agriculture and food security in the 27-member bloc during a meeting of European agricultural ministers in Luxembourg.

International scientists are to discuss ways of tackling the threat of climate change to food security, both nationally and globally, at a three-day conference at Oxford University starting on Wednesday 2 April. The conference ‘Food security and environmental change: linking science and policy for development’ is organised by ‘Global Environmental Change and Food Systems’ (GECAFS), a research project in the University’s Environmental Change Institute.

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), in collaboration with researchers from Arkansas, Maryland, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, have found that children living in households with food insecurity , are more likely to be at developmental risk during their first three years of life, compared to similar households that are not food insecure.

This Forward Look is a multidisciplinary joint ESF/COST initiative which involves the ESF Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, the ESF European Medical Research Councils, the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities, the ESF Standing Committee for the Social Sciences and the COST Domain Committee for Food and Agriculture.

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.

Cooked ham could soon be given a 39 day shelf life, according to scientists speaking today at the Society or General Microbiology's 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

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.

Latest Effort in Strengthening U.S. Food Defense