The farm bill provides far more money for hungry people than it does for farmers. Nearly 80 percent of the cost of the farm bill is for food programs, including $10.2 billion for domestic food assistance programs and $7.8 billion for food stamps. There’s also $1 billion for a program to provide healthy snacks of [...]

Food prices were up 9 per cent in the year to February. Bread prices are soaring, dairy commodity prices have doubled.
Two factors copping most of the blame %26ndash; the burgeoning wealth of developing countries and the biofuels industry %26ndash; are unlikely to disappear soon.
China, India, and other emerging economies are driving up demand for meat [...]

Councillors signalled in February they could go to stakeholders and ratepayers as part of the annual planning and budgetary process for the additional money needed to meet obligations arising from unprecedented growth in the region.
That money will go towards monitoring and managing natural resources, in response to community concern about water quality and allocation, the [...]