World Hunger and Starvation Approaches


	World Hunger and Starvation Approaches

aj_franklin

12-22-2007 2:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/65b51349-35db-4562-97b0-968c66faef0d/6FA1BFD9-F014-4AA1-B956-0D0D15B1D59E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml" href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wsws.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml"><H2>Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml"><P>Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have
dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned
December 17 that the changes represent an “unforeseen and
unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening
billions with hunger and decreased access to food.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml"><P>The FAO’s food price index rose by 40 percent this year,
on top of the already high 9 percent increase the year before,
and the poorest countries spent 25 percent more this year on imported
food. The prices for staple crops, including wheat, rice, corn
and soybeans, all rose drastically in 2007, pushing up prices
for grain-fed meat, eggs and dairy products and spurring inflation
throughout the consumer food market.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml">The world reserves of cereals are dwindling. In the past year,
wheat stores declined 11 percent. The FAO notes that this is the
lowest level</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6FA1BFD9-F014-4AA1-B956-0D0D15B1D59E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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