Global food crisis called ‘ticking time bomb’

Posted by Matt in March 1st, 2009

The global food crisis was called a “ticking time bomb” at a Feb. 24 forum during the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington.

Although prices for cereal grains have dropped since their spike last spring, the crisis has not gone away, according to Rajul Pandya-Lorch, chief of staff at the International Food Policy Research Institute and the head of the institute’s initiative, Vision 2020 for Food.

Instead, she said, the food crisis has been overshadowed by the global financial crisis.

Reuters – ?Feb 25, 2009?
Prices double every day as Zimbabweans struggle with food shortages, massive unemployment and a cholera epidemic which has killed close to 4000 people. …
Zimbabwe seeks urgent African aid BBC News
Zimbabwe gets promises, not cash at regional group The Associated Press
SADC mulls investing $2bn in Zim The Times

Australia’s key role in addressing global food shortage …

Australian Food – ?Feb 10, 2009?
“Those lessons are more important than ever, as threats to food security, the global recession and climate change could all affect the world’s ability to …

Global Food Production Falls Drastically

theTrumpet.com – ?Feb 16, 2009?
As world population rises and environmental trends deteriorate, global food shortage is fast becoming a reality. “World carryover stocks of grain (the …

International expert: Water scarcity a real and eminent threat

New Canaan News Review – ?Feb 26, 2009?
The Central Intelligence Agency said in a report predicting global trends in 2015 that there will be instability brought on by the water shortage, …

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3858. wilbert Robichaud said,

March 2nd, 2009 at 7:14 am

Sounds Familiar ?

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)