Hunger and Anger in the Time of Food Riots - Instablogs
Hunger and Anger in the Time of Food Riots
Pooja , Shimla: Apr 12 2008
Made Popular Apr 13 2008
The New Face of Hunger is not a stark picture of battered and malnourished children in Ethiopia. It is the rise of commodity prices and super inflation now biting all across the globe. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation predicted in October...
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Gagandeep
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Gagandeep Apr 13 2008
Shimla, India
Blame global warming, quest for alternate energy-sources, capitalism and what not, but the fact is that world production has stagnated. Successive droughts in Australia (one of the major exporters of wheat) have posed further supply side constraints. The sorry state will take some time to correct and unfortunately global food riots loom large.
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