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.

The Catholic Tokyo International Center supports Japan’s international Catholic community.

Dan Cohn-Sherbok is an honorary professor of history at the University of Aberystwyth and and  visiting professor at St Mary’s University College, London. He is the author and editor of over 70 books on Judaism, including On Earth as it is in Heaven: Jews, Christians, and Liberation Theology, Issues in Contemporary Judaism, and An Atlas of Jewish History.

John Nawas is an associate professor of Near Eastern studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. He is an expert on the history and fundamentals of Islam. He has supplied many entries to the Encyclopaedia of Islam.

The Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality is a program for the American Society of Muslim Advancement. It is a global social network and grassroots social justice movement designed to empower Muslim women, including promoting religious leadership roles for women. Its website posts a list of Islamic women’s organizations. Contact through the website.

The Muslim Women Resource Center provides assistance to women immigrants and refugees, helping them integrate into U.S. society and the job market. It is based in Chicago.