A detailed look at the hunger crisis in Zambia where shipments of U.S. genetically modified corn is rotting in storehouses. Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has rejected US corn because he believes that it poses health risks to his people.

Recent U.S. food assistance to Russia and North Korea has been based on national security calculations rather than humanitarian concerns.

The author argues that national security analysts should pay attention to global food policy as famines could spark wider resource conflicts.

The prospect of the United States delivering genetically modified food aid has inflamed a debate in starving southern Africa about the gene-altered foods. At stake are the lives of 13 million people in six countries in the region in desperate need of food. Without urgent assistance, their situation will deteriorate to famine in the next few months, aid agencies have warned.

Centuries of overfishing by man have emptied the world\'s oceans of giant fish, whales and other large sea creatures, destroying coastal environments.

One of the key figures behind the creation of Dolly the sheep has backed the
cloning of animals for meat and milk. Professor Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, claimed that the technique could overcome food shortages.

Sparred by the need to feed billions of people in the coming decades,
scientists have genetically engineered crops like soya beans, potatoes,
fruits and millet, with research showing that 28 million hectares of
genetically produced crops being grown just this year alone.

Genetically modified farmed-fish will feed the world by the year 2025 as global catches decline, predicts a US scientist. GM fish farms will be the only way to supply enough seafood amid the continuing collapse of commercial marine fisheries, believes Professor Yonathan Zohar, of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

For the first time, scientists report mapping the genes of a plant disease, an advance that could lead to new approaches to fighting a bacterial scourge that ravages orange groves and other crops.

Argues for a careful assesment of the risks of a global food crisis and for a pragmatic re-examination of high-yield agricultural practices.