The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

Read an April 23, 2008, Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about signs that some Americans are stockpiling food in light of the global problems. An accompanying timeline lists developments in the world food crisis since September 2007.

Read an April 25, 2008, Columbus Dispatch “Faith & Values” feature about Tony Hall, a former congressman who serves as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s envoy to religious groups in the Middle East. Hall has worked for decades on the problem of world hunger and has said that his advocacy on that and related issues is driven […]

Read an April 25, 2008, analysis of the global food crisis posted by the BBC. Cornell University economics professor Kaushik Basu is the author.

Read an April 27, 2008, Washington Post story (the first in a five-part series) about the factors pushing food prices sky-high and the resulting effects on the world’s poorest populations. An accompanying slide show includes a graphic detailing the countries hardest-hit.

Read an April 28, 2008, Christian NewsWire story about cutbacks in global food aid that World Vision is having to make due to its own financial challenges.

Read a May 2, 2008, Wall Street Journal article about President Bush asking Congress to approve an additional $770 million in global food aid.

Cissy Brady-Rogers is a marriage and family counselor in Arcadia, Calif., and was a contributor to The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession With Food and Weight. She can discuss fitness, yoga, Christians practicing yoga, Christian-based weight loss, eating disorders, plastic surgery and sexuality. She can be contacted through her website.

A 1989 essay by farmer and author Wendell Berry about “eating responsibly.” Berry has deep Christian commitments and his books are popular among many church reading groups.