“Famines don’t simply exist. They are organized by the grain trade.” —Bertolt Brecht

More than 30,000 people, mostly children, die of preventable causes each day. Most are undernourished.

Few aspects of human life affect health more directly than access to enough nutritious food and clean water. The political aspects of both food and water often mean the difference between life and death to many.

This section explores the politics of food scarcity and water access.

• The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Supermarkets And Service Stations Now Competing For Grain
• The Debate Heats Up
• Kids Pay Dearly for Lack of Clean Water
• On India's Farms, a Plague of Suicide
• Global Food Supply Nears Breaking Point
• Children 'starving' in new Iraq
• On World Water Day, one billion people still lack a clean supply
• Bolivia -- Bechtel surrenders
• Bottled Water -- Pouring Resources Down the Drain
• Kyrgyzstan -- Illnesses Flow from Dirty Water
• Falling Water Tables and Rising Temeratures Likely to Raise World's Food Prices