A Look at El Salvador on World Food Day

Around the world, countries celebrated World Food Day this past Tuesday, October 16th. It was a day to look at food security around the world and, this year, to see how agricultural cooperatives can help feed our planet’s growing population. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) promoted cooperatives, particularly women’s cooperatives, as a way…

Costa Rica Protects Local Rice Production, But at a High Cost

Costa Rica might be facing repercussions after three straight years of exceeding the amount of rice subsidies set by the World Trade Organization – exceeding it by about 650%. However, the rice producers in Costa Rica remain confident that nothing will happen, since they are practically inconsequential in terms of global rice producers. Rice is…

El Salvador’s Family Agriculture Plan

The Family Agriculture Plan (PAF) is a new act that was implemented in 2011 by the Ministry of Agriculture that aims to reduce rural poverty and increase agricultural production in order to revitalize the economy in the countryside. With four main components to the plan, the government hopes to improve the livelihoods of about 2…

G-20 Recommends Increasing Investments in Agriculture

The G20 is a group comprised of the top twenty largest economies in the world; together they account for 85% of the world’s production of goods and services; over 80% of the GDP and about 80% of the world trade, while accounting for about 65% of the world’s population. The members themselves are finance ministers…

Food Prices Will Rise, says UN FAO

The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization has recently issued a statement that the predicted rise in food prices needs to be on the forefront of every country’s agenda, especially those leaders of developing nations. Although food prices are predicted to rise through 2012, the prices will also be volatile, which means it will be…