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The Global Food Crisis

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Reprinted with permission by Peter Montague

Global food prices have risen 83% in the last 3 years. This spring, as prices rose steeply, food riots broke out in Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Yemen, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Italy, among other places. Because U.S. energy policy subsidizes farmers to grow corn to make ethanol (alcohol that can supplement gasoline), the U.S. is being accused of feeding its sport utility vehicles (SUVs) instead of feeding people. There is some truth to this charge, but it’s more complicated than that.[1]

The global food crisis has been created by a combination of things (MW: also see Foto Galery by Time Magazine from which the foto above is reproduced), among them:

** Climate changes, perhaps related to global warming, such as the recent large tornado in Myanmar, the epic [mehr...]

Greendex – a Consumer Index putting the US at the bottom of 100

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan today released the results of “Greendex 2008: Consumer Choice and the Environment — A Worldwide Tracking Survey,” an unprecedented study that measures and monitors consumer progress toward environmentally sustainable consumption around the world. The survey was conducted online between [mehr...]

Food for Thought: A Thought for Food

Press release by UNEP; by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

For two centuries, Australians have coped with the challenge of producing food on a continent where 70 per cent of its surface is at best semi-arid.

The legendary Australian ingenuity has met this challenge through a combination of innovation, [mehr...]

PLAN B 3.0 – MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION

From: Rachel’s Democracy & Health News, Mar. 13, 2008; by Tim Montague

Have you ever wondered what it would actually take to [mehr...]