April 07, 2008

Global food crisis "dots"

Of COURSE there are the "usual suspects" running on the google alerts - BLAME it on overpopulation, BLAME it on market manipulation, BLAME it on bad leadership in "developing" nations, but whatever "you" do, don't point any fingers of BLAME on Monsanto!!

No, please NOT THAT!!

Below are some current "dots" on google.

Here are a couple of links I dug up - well I would but my computer gets messed up everytime I try to post on this blog today. So here are JUST the google ones which are good for pinpointing future location crises. But I'll have to do some updating later on food crises and MONSANTO


Veeger

Food riots fear after rice price hits a high
The Observer - UK
Already China, India, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia have imposed tariffs or export bans, as it has become clear that world production of rice this year will ...
See all stories on this topic

‘Fields of Glo’
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism - Quezon City,Philippines
The proposed bill also includes a guarantee fund from the government, which can back up farmers, in case of low rice production. Instead of rice imports, ...
See all stories on this topic

Conversion of rice fields created rice shortage
Manila Times - Philippines
“With the RP-China agricultural deals, at least 1.2 million hectares will be added to for planting jatropha trees, so the land allotted for rice production ...
See all stories on this topic

Hungry ye kya? Remember Malthusian theory
Commodity Online - Kochi,Kerala,India
For example in South Asia, approximately half of the land has been degraded such that it no longer has the capacity for food production. In China there has ...
See all stories on this topic

ANALYSIS-Price controls are counterproductive, experts say
Reuters - USA
From Argentina and Venezuela to Russia, China and Thailand, governments are meeting the challenge of rising food prices by imposing price controls -- fixing ...
See all stories on this topic

People’s Food Summit seeks radical reforms
Manila Times - Philippines
The Philippine food crisis is man-made, not a mere outcome of the global food shortages. It states that the Philippines has the land resources to grow and ...
See all stories on this topic

NOT JUST SUPPLY AND DEMAND: The real reason food prices are ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
India?s export ban on non-Basmati rice and wheat has worsened Nepal?s shortage (See also: ?Food insecurity?, p 2) But this is not the only reason for the ...
See all stories on this topic

Rice crisis ‘imminent’ a long time ago
Manila Times - Philippines
The former food minister said that a slight decrease in worldwide rice production, as low as 5 percent, would affect many rice-producing countries, ...
See all stories on this topic

No comments:

ShareThis