Rising food prices rolling into a silent global tsunami
From The Economist.com PICTURES of hunger usually show passive eyes and swollen bellies. The harvest fails because of war or strife; the onset of crisis is sudden and localised. Its burden falls on those already at the margin. Today’s pictures are different. “This is a silent tsunami,” says Josette Sheeran of the World Food Programme, […]
Global hunger, global anger
The looming food shortage crisis in the Philippines is giving us pause and a certain nervousness about how things will unfold in the coming months ahead. We’ll be keeping track of how the food shortage crisis is spreading across Asia by devoting a post about it every wednesday of the week hence, HungerWednesday. The first […]
