The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more than 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food. Decades of inexpensive imports — especially rice from the U.S. — punctuated with abundant ...

There's nothing like scarcity and supply disruptions to fuel violent price spikes. And there's nothing like the basic human needs for food and water to light that fuse. Today's world food supplies run on razor-thin inventories. While the food riots of 2008 have all but disappeared from our ...

The government in Niger on Wednesday appealed for massive emergency aid to avert a food crisis that threatens more than half of the population of the arid west African country. "To the national and international community, I want to launch an emergency appeal for massive support to the enormous efforts Niger is making to cope with famine," Prime Minister Mahamadou ...

Up to half of the food aid intended for needy Somalis is routinely diverted, according to a United Nations report, but the World Food Programme called the allegation "unsubstantiated." The report by the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia, originally tasked with tracking violations of the arms embargo, was very critical of the UN food agency and condemned a de facto ...