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Food prices in 2050 will be shocking
Taiwan News.Net
Tuesday 9th March, 2010
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned another food price crisis might happen if record high energy prices, growing demand for bio-fuels and low grain reserves force up price benchmarks.
The prices, which have been steadily rising since 2007, have caused riots in many countries where some of the population have been unable to afford high priced food.
Food prices have remained especially high in many developing countries, with the threat of another global price hike persisting.
Jacques Diouf has told VOA that energy prices are above pre-crisis levels and crops are still being diverted for bio-fuels.
He said with extreme weather becoming more frequent and the world's population expected to grow by nearly 50 percent to 9 billion by 2050, developing countries would grow the most, requiring more nations to invest more in agriculture.
Last summer in Italy, the G-8 group of industrialized nations pledged $20 billion to help farmers in the developing world expand food supplies.  Email this story to a friend
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03-09-10, 09:11 AM |
UN says world food supplies are unbalanced
I don’t believe in Apocalypse but I do believe in extinction by starvation in the next few hundred years. Genitals replace the brain in 95% of the world population and this will be the final result.
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kawahchan
03-09-10, 11:56 AM |
American Medical Charity: "Burma refugees (Rohingya) face starvation.
(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential / Burmese ethnic refugees settlement: American Medical Charity, “Physicans For Human Rights” said Myanmar military junta government authorities are preventing the Muslim minority Rohingya from receiving adequate care. Our Republican US Congress and Senate are the ONLY leadership who listen INSTEAD OF the Democrats' “SANCTION SOLUTION”, like Obama-Clinton to press MORE SANCTIONS to act dumb. Tell us, tell the Senate hearing speaked from American Medical Charity, “Physicians For Human Rights” group; the Special Interests “CANNOT” count on Taiwan’s TZU CHI, we see they (the Taiwanese) DON’T have enough sincerity; especially we cannot count on, nor to trust Ma Ying-jeou’s fraternity but too phony. We cannot ask the Thai government again, the Thai military have been hurt those Rohingya badly during the first Obama year with Robert M. Gates' heartless. Too little, too late have to WAIT till the 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House to renew the ex- US President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK) founded PEACE CORPS to help them. Or have to WAIT for 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE administration to open a “LITTLE RANGOON” in Guantanamo Bay to resettlement, to shelter the Burmese, Hmong, Boat People refugees. May be we can count on Texas Cooperative Extension Service, a part of Texas A&M University system’s agriculture professors and students to volunteer farming knowledge in Bangladesh to grow foods. Any suggestion to the Republican US Congress and Senate hearing; we are listening ? Forget what the Obama-Clinton’s “MORE SANCTIONS SOLUTION” to the starving Rohingya children, women, senior citizens and men.
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Anonymous
03-09-10, 11:59 AM |
This is a very clever propaganda by the notorious UN and its FAO organization under the order of the Masons again for pushing their secret agenda - GMO seeds and GMO food to marginalize the world’s population!
There is one thing assured though. The Masons and their establishments will no longer exist by 2050 because they will be marginalize by the people around the world by military means way sometime within the next 5 years.
GMO seeds and GMO food is a greater threat than nuclear bombs because they are a silent and secret biological killer WMD.
Would you rather go to a nuclear war blowing up the Masonic empires and themselves than letting them kill you by covert means?
Getting killed in action is more honorable than getting killed by starvation and food poisoning by dirty secret means of deception. The Masons are cowards!
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waltky
04-27-10, 07:43 AM |
Strike over food and fuel price raises...
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Indian strike over food prices
Tuesday, 27 April 2010 - Nationwide protests over the rising price of food and fuel hits various Indian states, disrupting some transport services.
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Communist and opposition parties in India are holding nationwide protests against rising food and fuel prices. The Communist-governed states of West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala are likely to be worst hit by the 12-hour strike called by the parties. Air and train services have been disrupted in West Bengal, and attendance in offices across the states is reported to be patchy.
Food prices in India have risen by as much as 20% over the past year. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which organised a big rally in the capital, Delhi, against the price rise is not participating in Tuesday’s strike, which has been mainly called by the Communist and a few regional parties.
Reports say that the eastern city of Calcutta is worst affected with private airlines suspending services and trains held up at various places by protesters. Toilets at the city’s airport were also locked by striking workers, says the BBC’s Subir Bhaumik in Calcutta. Work in the tea gardens of West Bengal state were not affected after owners threatened to cut wages if workers did not attend, our correspondent says.
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