August 22, 2013 | We are like the British at the end of World War II: desperately trying to shore up an empire that we never needed and can no longer afford, using methods that often resemble those of failed empires of the past.
July 12, 2011 | Land investments - the purchase or lease of vast tracts of land from mostly poor, developing countries by wealthier food-insecure nations and private investors for the production and export of food and agrofuel crops - have become a very fast-paced international phenomenon.
October 26, 2006 | Niger is the poorest country in the world. Neither humanitarian aid nor free-market reforms prevented its 2005 food crisis.