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... food prices could double by 2030, claims uk based charity oxfam, which also estimates that demand in 2050 could be 70 percent higher than current levels ... at the launch of its grow campaign, oxfam warned of worsening hunger as the global food economy stumbles close to breakdown, with the charity’s chief executive barbara stocking warning that the food system “is pretty well bust in the world ... " according to oxfam, and the un's food and agriculture organization (fao), there are already around 1 billion people going hungry on a daily basis ... rising costs the charity forecast food prices to rise by between 70 and 90 per cent by 2030 ... they added that more people will be pushed into hunger as food prices climb ... broken system in its report, oxfam said that the ‘broken’ food system causes “hunger, along with obesity, obscene waste, and appalling environmental degradation

... the award is designed to raise awareness of the role of dates in food security ... date palm trees a uae cultural heritage "this initiative truly reflects the importance of the date palm in the cultural heritage of the united arab emirates and in the food economy of the region", diouf said, explaining that the sector constitutes a priority for economic diversification in the government's development plan ... but investment in agriculture still lagging but the director-general reminded his audience that, as in 2008, international agricultural markets again face higher food commodity prices that could undermine food security in a world where population, and thus the demand for food, are sharply on the rise ... 1 billion in 2050 - will require a 70 percent increase in global food production and a 100 percent increase the developing countries, he said adding that investment was not keeping pace ... meanwhile, more than 100 million tonnes of cereals are diverted from food to biofuels on account of subsidies valued at 13 billion us dollars and tariff protection of the developed countries

... health care reform in the united states is impossible without tackling the country's obesity epidemic, author and food activist michael pollan has warned ... "that's why our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry: the food industry ... "but so far, food system reform has not figured in the national conversation about health care reform," pollan writes ... "according to pollan, widespread food reform is an essential part of health care reform, "everything from farm policy to food marketing to school lunches ... and columbia university concluded that the best way to reduce rates of childhood obesity would be to develop a diverse, regional food economy and move away from globalized agriculture

... global food prices are on the ascent again with the fao food price index - a food basket composed of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar - registering four straight monthly rises ... fortunately, market conditions are different from those that triggered the food price crisis that started two years ago, the un’s food and agriculture organization (fao) said in its december food outlook report published overnight (australian time) ... “although supply and demand fundamentals will continue to shape commodity markets, the now entrenched susceptibility of the global food system to external non-food economy events requires continuous vigilance,” fao said ... global cassava production is expected to reach new highs in 2009, largely due to initiatives to sustain food security and demand from the ethanol sector where cassava has emerged as a key feedstock

... global food prices are on the ascent again with the fao food price index – a food basket composed of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar – registering four straight monthly rises ... however market conditions are different from those that triggered the food price crisis that started two years ago, fao said in its december food outlook report published today ... “although supply and demand fundamentals will continue to shape commodity markets, the now entrenched susceptibility of the global food system to external non-food economy events requires continuous vigilance,” fao said ... global cassava production is expected to reach new highs in 2009, largely due to initiatives to sustain food security and demand from the ethanol sector where cassava has emerged as a key feedstock

... global food prices are on the rise again, the fao warns, but a repeat of the 2007/08 spike does not look likely without the same disastrous confluence of factors ... food prices reached a peak in june 2008, causing serious food security concerns and rioting in some parts of the world ... for the food industry, higher ingredient costs were passed along the food chain and had an impact on the bottom line of many businesses – not to mention end consumers’ grocery bills ... today the un’s food and agriculture organization (fao) has warned of the fourth consecutive rise in its monthly food price index, a ‘food basket’ made up of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar ... however the organisation says the “now entrenched susceptibility of the global food system to external non-food economy events requires continuous vigilance”

... "the consequences of the growing worldwide food crisis are so severe, brown warns, that it could "bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization ... our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy -- most important, falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures -- forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible ... "brown notes that demand for food has been growing at a pace that far outstrips growth in supplies ... this situation contributed to a universal surge in food prices, which resulted in riots around the world ... "if the food situation continues to deteriorate, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate ... states fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care," he writes ... because food shortages are driven in large part by environmental degradation, however, brown warns that there can be no "quick fix" to the problem