Unfortunately, the American farm lobby, which supports food aid as long as it gets the profit, is fighting any change to the system.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis on Monday, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices around the world.

Under pressure to cut costs, the International Monetary Fund is embracing one of the austerity measures it has long prescribed for countries in fiscal crisis: trimming the payroll.

The European Union is considering stringent social and environmental criteria for imports that the US and some other big biofuel producers would not meet.

A generation after the first attempt failed, people are once more talking seriously about eradicating malaria.

Thousands of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at halting the spread of Aids.

10 million people or more could die prematurely if currently high global prices are passed along to poor people in Asia, warns Peter Timmer, a leading expert on agriculture and development who is advising Indonesia on its response to the crisis,

More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a "silent tsunami" of sharply rising food prices, which has sparked riots around the world and threaten U.N.-backed feeding programs for 20 million children, the top U.N. food official s

The French president pledged more money and a new global partnership to bring down food prices – the latest ambitious plan to combat the worldwide crisis

Money sent home by Latin American migrant workers in the US grew last year at their slowest rate in a decade, a result of the US economic slowdown and the crackdown against illegal migration, combined with the strength of the Brazilian economy