Rice, fertilizer shortages, food costs, higher energy prices equal world crisis
WorldNetDaily
April 1, 2007
WASHINGTON – From India to Africa to North Korea to Pakistan and even in New York City, higher grain prices, fertilizer shortages and rising energy costs are combining to spell hunger for millions in what is being characterized as a global "silent famine."
Global food prices, based on United Nations records, rose 35 percent in the last year, escalating a trend that began in 2002. Since then, prices have risen 65 percent.
Last year, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's world food index, dairy prices rose nearly 80 percent and grain 42 percent.
"This is the new face of hunger," said Josetta Sheeran, director of the World Food Program, launching an appeal for an extra $500 million so it could continue supplying food aid to 73 million hungry people this year. "People are simply being priced out of food markets. ... We have never before had a situation where aggressive rises in food prices keep pricing our operations out of our reach." [Full Article...]
"Food is Power! We use it to control behavior. Some may call it bribery. We do not apologize." Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, speaking at the UN World Food Summit, November 1996
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