Tag Archives: food crisis

Free Markets and the Food Crisis in Central America

Posted 21 November 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Central America, Integration & Trade | 5 Comments

The link between trade liberalization and food availability is becoming a critical factor that, far from improving living conditions, threatens to deepen and entrench the structural causes of hunger, violence and malnutrition in the region.

The Food Crisis Strikes Again

Posted 19 October 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Integration & Trade | 5 Comments

The increase in the cost of food, especially basic grains, has serious consequences for southern countries with low incomes and dependency on food imports, and for the millions of families in these countries.

Bread on our Table

Posted 31 August 2010 | By | Categories: Climate Change, Food Politics, Integration & Trade, U.S.-Latin America relations | No Comments

The price of Mexican bolillos (hard buns) will rise. So will the price of pastries, pastas, crackers, flour tortillas and loaf breads. This was the announcement of Leopoldo Gonzalez, president of the National Chamber of the Bread Industry (Canainpa). In fact, the price of flour to make these products has already has gone up 20%. [...]