The Kimberly Process has become a whitewash; Roger Bate reports from Africa.

AEI's Director of Japan Studies Michael Auslin is available to comment on Japan's disaster.

Sadly, 43 years after CBS News ran a documentary called "Hunger in America" it could do a new version coming to the same, if not more dire and depressing, conclusions. Hunger is here, in a real and palpable way, exacerbated by our tough economic conditions and persistent unemployment, but worsened as well by the high cost of food, especially nutritious food.

Jon Entine is available for comment on his book Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

Cultural politics and trade disputes--rather than science--inhibit the further development of genetically modified products.

This incisive volume considers the impact of precautionary standards on international food security policies and explores its possible unintended consequences--including environmental degradation, the spread of disease, and a hungrier world.

How are HIV and AIDS affecting the population of Sierra Leone?

A new policy in Zimbabwe effectively means that all of Zimbabwe's foreign-owned industries are to be nationalized, which may well be the final straw for what's left of Zimbabwe's economy.