...unrest in Mexico, where the government has tried to mollify angry consumers by slapping price controls on tortillas. Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, predicts food riots in other major corn-importing countries if something...

...Is it better to use corn to make fritters or fuel? The man who's most worried about the competition for corn is Lester R. Brown, a MacArthur "genius grant" winner with impeccable environmental credentials. "The grain required to fill an...

...To feed a typical family SUV on corn-based E-85 ethanol would take more than two dedicated acres. As economist Lester R Brown, from the Earth Policy Institute, put it: "The competition for grain between the world's 800 million motorists...