Tomatoes are going for $5.77 per kilo in Mexico.

This is sweet news for Paraguay, even while Argentina and other neighboring countries seek to develop their production of stevia as an alternative sweetener.

Inaction by President Obama and Congress will mean higher food prices and hunger worldwide.

UN: Sustainable Development Conference will shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) today welcomed Saudi Arabia?s contribution of $66 million to implement its technical assistance projects in the country, which aim to benefit small-scale agricultural producers and fishermen.

Analysis of Stone Age remains shows that farming moved north across the continent

Paraguay remains the step-child of the Southern Cone, importing more from MERCOSUR than its partners import from the land-locked country.

Ledesma is the largest sugar producer in Argentina, but it has diversified into citrus and other products including bioenergy, paper, and fruit.

Over 100 thousand people are going hungry in Paraguay, while crops such as soybeans are effected. Rivers are too low to float export ships and barges.

Africans flee from farming even while foreign interests are swallowing up land as a new colonial era emerges.

Mexico may get the worst drought in 70 years.