Venezuelan consumers are increasingly facing periodic shortages of basic food products as the economy shows signs of overheating amid record revenues from an oil boom.

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.

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.

China will maintain a minimum purchase price for wheat, safeguarding 25-30 percent profit margins for farmers, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner.

Efforts by Indonesia to avoid food shortages by increasing its rice production have received an important boost with the signing of a new agreement to help the nation's millions of poor rice farmers with new technologies.