Bruce Blythe, Business Editor 13 June 2011 The government’s latest crops outlook brought unwelcome news for Mike Engler, a Texas feedlot operator who’s watched profits evaporate in recent months as corn prices soared to records and the cattle market slumped....
By R. Quentin Grafton, John Williams, Qiang Jiang8 March 2015 (Food Security) – This graph shows a set of projections of surplus or deficit in food production (billions kcalories) for eight scenarios for dryland and irrigated cropping based on 19...
By Peter Lykke Lind 25 November 2016 (Antananarivo) – The severe drought afflicting southern Madagascar has left 330,000 people on the brink of famine, a senior UN official has warned. Three successive years of failed rains have left the island...