This week’s summary on the news stories, reports and blogs that have grabbed our attention. We welcome your thoughts and comments on these articles.
Act Now, or Food Shortages Could Become a Problem for Us All, Gordon Conway, Huffington Post
Invisible Math: Accounting for the Real Costs of Big Ag, Civil Eats
Hidden crop pest threat to poorer nations revealed, EurekAlert
Feeding the World – or feeding the Corporations?, The Ecologist
New GM corn gets controversial EU go-ahead, EU Business
Agriculture Increasingly Spells Opportunity in the Arid Gulf, The Wall Street Journal
Food wars, Cosmos
Uganda takes stock of new climate information service, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Voluntary GE Labels Won’t Work, Huffington Post
The family farming revolution, Al Ahram
Developing a Sustainable Nutrition Research Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa, PAEPARD
Who’s winning the battle against child mortality?, Devex
Vertical farming explained: how cities could be food producers of the future, The Guardian
From WEF 2014: Water shortage as global risk–now what?, Global Food for Thought