Hungry and angry are the only two words in the English language that end in "gry".  (The overly punctilious also make reference to an Asian hat of some kind.)  Below are links to news reports, opinion pieces, and academic articles that are related to the topics taught in my course, "World Hunger, Population, and Food Supplies,"  (AREC 365) at the University of Maryland. 

Howard Leathers,  Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

email me at hleathers@arec.umd.edu

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Great Leap Forward Famine.  The New York Times has an op-ed piece with some inside details of the government's role in the worst famine in  history.  “When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”  Mao-Tse Tung, Shanghai, March 25, 1959.  (December 2010)

2010 World Food Situation.  The Financial Times has extensive coverage, though a main menu page here.  (December 2010)

Better Information and Public Exhortations have no impact on Dietary Choices.   According to this recent report by Center for Disease Control  (September 2010)

Minimum Wage Laws cause Unemployment in South Africa.  The New York Times reports on high  unemployment in South Africa.  (September 2010)

Fear of Future Food Shortages  is fueling a "twenty-first century land rush" in which foreign investors are buying up land in developing countries,  according to recent research by FAO  and the World Bank.  Some of that research is described here.  (September 2010)

Aid to Ethiopia.    Aid failed to stop famine in Ethiopia according to a new book,  reviewed here.    "Famine and Foreigners"  by Peter Gill.   (September 2010).

Brazil's Agricultural Miracle.  The Economist reports.  With a deeper look at the cerrado here.  (September 2010)

A Right to Food in India.  The New York Times reports.  (August 2010)