World food prices have climbed to their highest level for over two years, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. The FAO said commodity price pressures show little sign of abating...

Author, journalist and science writer Julian Cribb has created a sobering text in The Coming Famine: The global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it, from CSIRO Publishing. Cribb’s view of...

National Farmers’ Federation President David Crombie today warned that food scarcity is a reality that all Australians will need to face. “Australians need to brace for a future of higher prices...