Now, the world’s problem is food: Here come shortages, rising prices and riots
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As if the human family doesn’t have enough to worry about, what with the alarming, destructive effects in many parts of the world of global climate change, political unrest or certain thorny, ugly, seemingly endless wars (those in Iraq and western Sudan (Darfur), for example), now comes the disturbing news that the planet’s food supply – or, for some, access to it – is threatened. This week, there have been riots in Haiti related to rising food prices; in recent weeks and months there have been protests regarding rising food prices or food shortages in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Bolivia and Indonesia. Snapshots from an emerging crisis:
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