November 4, 2011 by Fred de Sam Lazaro

Famine and war have pushed tens of thousands of Somali refugees to camps along the Ethiopian border. The crisis is likely to grow worse, straining the resources of aid groups.

October 11, 2011 by Julia Rendleman

This project looks at the paradox of Jamaican agriculture: an abundant supply of fish, fruits and vegetables while farmers struggle to find financial success.

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July 6, 2011 by Samuel Loewenberg

Sky-rocketing food prices, drought, conflict, and an insufficient response have left populations in the Horn of Africa on the brink of famine.

July 21, 2010 by Juhie Bhatia

Reporting from Pulitzer Center journalists and across the blogosphere on food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition around the world.

April 22, 2010 by Fred de Sam Lazaro

A country dependent on food aid is also selling off farmland to foreign companies interested in export production for their home markets. How Ethiopia became a leader in this global trend, and what...

November 30, 2009 by Philip Brasher

African farmers already struggle to grow sufficient maize, which is a thirsty, fertilizer-hungry crop. What will happen as the climate changes and the population grows?

June 24, 2009 by Tracy Boyer

Nestled in a remote northern Honduras valley, Santa Lucia and the surrounding area are home to 20,000 rural inhabitants. These families rely solely on their agrarian skills for a subsistent living....

April 5, 2009 by Fred de Sam Lazaro

Fred de Sam Lazaro presents a series of reports from around the world, examining the intersections of food, food policy, and food security.

March 28, 2009 by Samuel Loewenberg

Samuel Loewenberg ventures to Guatemala to survey the underlying issues of the Central American country's extreme poverty.

March 11, 2009 by Carolyn Drake, Ilan Greenberg

The global financial crisis is now reverberating deep inside the Tajikistan's mountainous countryside, where tens of thousands of Tajik men who no longer have jobs in Russia have returned to their...

December 1, 2008 by David Hecht

Twenty-five years ago Abdullahi Tijjani had a vision for Kuki, a village in the north of Nigeria he became chief of at age 14: "Hunger will become a thing of the past once we marry modern technolog

October 4, 2008 by Sharon Schmickle, Fred de Sam Lazaro

Ug99, a virulent fungal disease, could create a major food security crisis by attacking the world's second largest crop, wheat. After the disease was discovered in Uganda in 1999, its spores took to...

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