The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions
By Jet Hermida on Jun 4, 2008 in Agriculture and Globalization, Food Security
For HungerWednesday! we feature this nice read from Fred Magdoff at the MonthlyReview.org as he examines the causes of the global food crisis and proposes solutions. Interesting reading indeed!
An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at the interaction between these short-term and long-term crises. Both crises arise primarily from the for-profit production of food, fiber, and now biofuels, and the rift between food and people that this inevitably generates.
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pls give me the sources of world food crises
why | Jul 25, 2008 | Reply
pls send me information on world food crises thank you
food crises | Jul 25, 2008 | Reply