“I’ve got two children,” she says. “ I’ve got to have food.” So do 46 million other Americans. In fact, if the Americans using food stamps...

The number of people going bankrupt has seen its biggest quarterly rise in three years, up 25% on the previous quarter. Official figures fr...

“We think we are heading towards malnutrition happening here in the UK.” - Save the Children’s Colette Marshall told the BBC . "Benefi...

The Sunday Times has found that home-grown products are being transported thousands of miles overseas for processing before being put on s...

The number of people living in poverty in the world's 50 least developed countries is rising despite their economies growing at the fast...

Average families have seen their disposable incomes drop by £8 a week in the past year, research suggests. Although earnings rose by £23 a ...

High food costs have added £15 to a weekly supermarket shop for a family of four in the UK, new research suggests. Comparison website MySupe...

From Ian Bell of the Sunday Herald Lots of food, lots of hunger: it’s a market thing. Last week the International Assessment of Agricultural...

The Socialist Courier has already reported here about the rise in the world prices of food but today's Herald carried an article on the...

What difference does 50 years make for the working class . Are we all better off . Well , it certainly appears that way . UK household incom...

Always first with the news , Socialist Courier reported here the Capitalist Scam of supposed rivals and competitors co-operating to fix pr...

Capitalism is all about competition , right ? Wrong , if these stories are to go by . Four of the world's biggest glass manufacturers ha...

Mark Hill, food and agriculture partner at Deloitte, the accountancy firm , warned that rising demand for wheat and maize was bound to resul...