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I was looking for pictures for this post and the only one that didn’t leave me completely speachless was this plain picture of long grain rice.
Experiment for a moment. Go to Google images, write food crisis in the search window and see if the pictures that appear with those search words allow you to continue breathing.
We all know that there is an international food Crisis, Just like we know that there are various reasons for it happening, as bought to us by acton
* In the United States subsidies given to farmers that grow corn used for the production of biofuel (ethanol). A quarter of the national crop production is now devoted to the bio-fuel industry.
* In Europe, the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which pays farmers to restrict their output and locks out agricultural products from outside the European Union.
* In Australia, a terrible draught that has lasted 2 years and compromised 60% of the agricultural production.
* Increasing demand for rice, wheat, meat in China and India
* Decrease of cultivated land especially in China and India, where agricultural districts are transformed in industrial areas.
* Increase in the price of fuel which has resulted in an increase in the price of fertilizers.
But do we Really understand what this means?
The world bank reckons that this crisis will lead over 100 million people to starvation.
The Catholic church is speaking out against bio-fuel as one off the leading reason for this crisis, and the seculare NGO are speaking up against trade and import restrictions and price control, and the only humanitarian organzations that are not on the wagon yet are the catholic NGO’s.
for more of this very interesting article go here
On second thoughts, I will bring just one more picture - as they say - a picture is more powerful than 1000 words.
