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World Food Crisis 'Here To Stay'
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-19-2008 | David Blair

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crisis; food; foodcrisis; hunger; world
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I read in another recent article that China has turned to Africa to begin growing and importing food grown by them in Africa.
1 posted on 05/18/2008 7:47:57 PM PDT by blam
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just weeks ago they had obesity crisis

seems everything is ok now

cured obesity/diabetes quick l like


2 posted on 05/18/2008 7:51:09 PM PDT by Flavius (war gives peace its security)
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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.


3 posted on 05/18/2008 7:51:18 PM PDT by sinanju
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we're gonna starve, over heat, run out of energy... and what else? Oh, we're all miserable racists.

You know, I think I'm beginning to see a pattern...

4 posted on 05/18/2008 7:52:01 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
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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.

Isn't green the color of Islam?

5 posted on 05/18/2008 7:52:35 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (During the Middle Ages, rats spread bubonic plague. Today, Rats spread the socialist plague.)
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That’s it. They’ll prop up the old butcher and run the place as their colonial plantation.

and the American Left will nod in agreement

6 posted on 05/18/2008 7:53:38 PM PDT by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
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To: the invisib1e hand

What do you expect from a guy named John Holmes.


7 posted on 05/18/2008 7:54:54 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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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.


8 posted on 05/18/2008 7:58:29 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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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.


9 posted on 05/18/2008 7:59:33 PM PDT by doc1019 (I was taught to respect my elders, but it's getting harder to find one.)
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Modern agriculture can feed the world if the left and their thug dictator buddies will allow them.


10 posted on 05/18/2008 7:59:48 PM PDT by lawnguy (The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil-Cicero)
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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.


11 posted on 05/18/2008 8:11:29 PM PDT by Swiss
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"High food prices are here to stay and the world needs a "green revolution" to feed its rising population,...."

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.

12 posted on 05/18/2008 8:19:06 PM PDT by LegendHasIt (Noone/Nohow '08)
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victory gardens


13 posted on 05/18/2008 8:25:25 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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Has anyone seen these:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/01/this-company-may-be-the-biggest-threat-to-your-future-health.aspx?source=nl

http://www.mercola.com/future-of-food/index.htm

Scary stuff if true... any thoughts?


14 posted on 05/18/2008 8:28:19 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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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.


15 posted on 05/18/2008 8:29:38 PM PDT by Humble Servant ( Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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Excuse me if I say “balderdash” to anyone who predicts the future.......


16 posted on 05/18/2008 8:30:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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"Scary stuff if true... any thoughts?"

I agree. I don't know what to do.

17 posted on 05/18/2008 8:35:05 PM PDT by blam
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“green revolution” means....YOUR greenbacks into THEIR hands.....to “feed the hungry”


18 posted on 05/18/2008 8:36:24 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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CO2 fertilizes plants. Ethanol shifts food production to fuel. So the green left wants to eliminate all CO2 emissions. But it is fine with diverting food production, even though it emits more. What do the positions they support all have in common?

Hatred of the human race...

19 posted on 05/18/2008 8:38:31 PM PDT by JasonC
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Victory Gardens


20 posted on 05/18/2008 8:38:43 PM PDT by blam
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