Food Price Inflation and Health
Periods of concurrent economic downturn and high food price inflation can exacerbate health threats for infants and children in developing countries.
Scientists Are Putting Mosquitoes on Human Diet Drugs
Humans and mosquitoes share a surprising amount of genes and have similar hunger controls.
How Victorians’ Fear of Starvation Created Our Christmas Lore
One scholar sees more in the Christmas food of authors like Charles Dickens—English national identity and class.
“Give Us Bread!”
In 1917, a food riot erupted in Brooklyn over the prices of staples. These forms of protest, sadly, are not quite yet ready for the dustbin of history.
GMOs, Inequality and World Hunger
In a 2008 paper for the British Journal of Criminology, Reese Walters looked at GMO crops from an entirely different perspective.
Why Growing More Food Won’t Stop Hunger
Hunger is still a major issue. At the same time, the world produces twice as much food as it needs.