Food The Global Crisis Deepens »
Posted By engineer 6 months, 3 weeks ago in StyleTHE LIST of countries on the brink of disaster because of the global food crisis is growing by the week. Terrorism and security experts predict widespread social and political unrest and violent conflict in the second and third world.
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engineer6 months, 3 weeks ago
Last week the United Nations' World Food Programme announced it is to provide US$1.2 billion (£600 million) in additional food aid in the 62 countries hit hardest by the food and fuel crisis.
And Save the Children yesterday launched an emergency appeal to help children in Ethiopia who are suffering from increasing levels of hunger. The charity said a combination of drought and escalating food prices has left 4.6 million people urgently in need of food. In scenes reminiscent of the famines of the 1980s, about 736,000 of these are children under the age of five, a group which is particularly vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition.
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riverat6 months, 3 weeks ago
Look up the farm strike in Argentina. It's not all about ethanol.
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walden36 months, 3 weeks ago
Diesel is $6 a gallon. It costs a lot of money to plow and plant fields.
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