Posted on 05/18/2008 7:47:57 PM PDT by blam
World food price crisis 'here to stay'
By David Blair in New York
Last Updated: 1:43AM BST 19/05/2008
EPA Sir John Holme said the world needed a "green revolution"
High food prices are here to stay and the world needs a "green revolution" to feed its rising population, the senior humanitarian official at the United Nations has told The Telegraph. Sir John Holmes, Britain's former ambassador to Paris who now serves as the UN's under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, said structural changes in the global economy are the cause of the sudden rise in food prices.
"It is possible that in the next two or three years prices will come down a bit from the peaks we've seen in the last few months – but not to where they were before," he said.
Sir John said the emergence of hundreds of millions of middle class consumers in China and India has increased demand for food. High oil prices make transporting food more expensive. The supply of grain has been hit by bad weather and the transfer of land to grow biofuels instead of food crops.
With the global population forecast to reach nine billion by 2050 compared with six billion today, Sir John said, the world needed a "green revolution", especially in Africa.
just weeks ago they had obesity crisis
seems everything is ok now
cured obesity/diabetes quick l like
Maybe they’ll simply end up buying Zimbabwe from Mugabe, now that he’s chased every competent farmer off the land.
That’s it. They’ll prop up the old butcher and run the place as their colonial plantation.
You know, I think I'm beginning to see a pattern...
Isn't green the color of Islam?
and the American Left will nod in agreement
What do you expect from a guy named John Holmes.
IIRC, the world had a reasonable amount of food until the leftists in the U.S. came up with their brilliant idea of making E-85 ethanol leveraging corn. Now, there’s not enough food available to the world and nearly all foodstuffs in the U.S. and worldwide are significantly more expensive.
I’m sure Jammah Cahtah is proud. Now perhaps Obama can serve Jammah’s second term and revisit the misery that Jammah brought to our country in the 70’s.
LOL! All this and Obama too! Gee, reason 235 to be glad I’m old and will not be around to see the culmination of all this (hopefully). All the youngsters of the world … enjoy your legacy.
Modern agriculture can feed the world if the left and their thug dictator buddies will allow them.
When the US Dollar returns to the value it had oh say three or four years ago then I want to see what the price of food is.
There isn’t a damn problem with food production. Other than some localized weather related crop failures such as the Southeast Asia rice crop or some related animal problem such as a disease hitting Chinese swine there is nothing abnormal about the supply of food in the World.
The "green revolution" one of the major things responsible for the problems with food costs. As usual, these 'watermelons' confuse cause, effect and solution with each other; whether it be through ignorance or lying to advance their agenda.
victory gardens
Has anyone seen these:
http://www.mercola.com/future-of-food/index.htm
Scary stuff if true... any thoughts?
Anybody got any info on the impact of “Organic” agriculture on food prices and supply? Seems to me that yield per acre is significantly lower, my guess would be by 20-30%.. That has to mean more total acres needed to produce the same amount of total food. My wife has fallen prey to the mystical foolishness of what I see as a big-time scam.
Excuse me if I say “balderdash” to anyone who predicts the future.......
I agree. I don't know what to do.
“green revolution” means....YOUR greenbacks into THEIR hands.....to “feed the hungry”
Hatred of the human race...
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