Sub-Saharan Africa and Afghanistan have the most insecure food supplies in the world, while Nordic countries are least at risk, shows an index published yesterday (19 August).

MPs will take part in a backbench business debate on food and security prevention in Africa on 15 September 2011.

Finally, people are getting what should be done when there’s a looming famine: In Kenya, Save The Children is giving people vouchers to buy food in local markets. Several other aid groups are piloting similar schemes, some of them simply handing out cash to people who need food, or transferring it to their mobile phones

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Family Food 2007 is the latest in a series of annual reports published by Defra on food and drink purchases in the UK based on the Expenditure and Food Survey. The report presents trends in purchases by type of food and converts these into energy and nutrients intakes.

A council is to ban fast food outlets from opening within 400m of schools and parks as part of a drive to improve children's health.

Alex Renton has deeply muddle-headed piece in the Graun today. His theme is food waste, but he simply doesn't know what he's talking about. the British food economy is not healthy today and we've only begun to feel the first tremors of world food shortages. We import 52% of our food; the figure seems likely to rise since, as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (De...

People travelling outside the EU this summer can now easily check what food they can, and can't, bring back to the UK, with the new Food Widget - an online food travel checker launched by Food and Farming Minister Jane Kennedy.

The European Commission has tabled plans to temporarily ban animal cloning for food production in the EU but said it was ready to allow imports of food from clones' offspring.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - The annual 2008 edition of the Food Statistics Pocketbook provides a concise round-up of statistics on food covering the economic, social and environmental aspects of the food we eat (excluding agriculture).

Yesterdays Sunday Times mentions the work of a couple of Green party councillors in putting together the report re food in Stroud District -this is worth a read - we hope to hear more about this over coming months as this is an issue that needs to be heard.Photo: Grapes in my garden last yearWhy we forgot how to grow food As a food shortage looms, people are digging for Britain — and their dinne...