Insights and Stories of Catherine Hornby

Aug. 10, 2012 at 5:18 pm CDT

The United Nations’ food agency stepped up the pressure on the United States on Friday to change its biofuel policies because of the danger of a world food crisis, arguing the importance of growing crops for food over their use for fuel. Global alarm over the potential for a food […]

By Catherine Hornby

Jul. 11, 2012 at 8:55 pm CDT

World farm commodity prices will edge higher in the next decade, and oilseeds are set to outperform wheat and other cereals, both trends fuelled by demand in emerging economies, the OECD said Wednesday, presenting a joint report with the United Nations food agency. Prices have eased from record highs hit […]

By Catherine Hornby

Jan. 3, 2012 at 11:31 pm CST

Prices of some foods may ease slightly in 2012 due to a slowing global economy but are unlikely to drop drastically from the high levels reached last year, the new director-general of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. Jose Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian who replaced Senegal’s […]

By Catherine Hornby

Oct. 19, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

A U.N. intergovernmental body on food security has failed to adopt international guidelines on land governance, delaying efforts to regulate so-called land-grabbing as investors race to snap up agricultural land. A voluntary code of conduct has been in the works since 2008, driven by concerns that countries such as China […]

By Catherine Hornby