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Are Record Food Prices Fueling Global Instability?
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsFood prices are rising, warns the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the implications for global stability could be dire. According to the FAO, the monthly food price index rose 3.4 percent in January to the highest it's been since the organization started compiling the index in 1990. And it's only expected to continue to rise in the coming months. Experts fear that the increasing pressure on food prices is one of the root causes of the widespread uprisings in the Middle East, and if the U.N.'s prediction of a continued rise holds true, that trend will get ...
UN Report Predicts Food Prices Will Rise in 2011
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- Between wildfires, floods and drought, it's been a bad year for grain production worldwide. Now, a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization predicts a bleak year for people around the world struggling with hunger. The report predicts that food prices will rise due to unfavorable weather, declining production and rapidly diminishing cereal stocks. The people who will ultimately pay the price will be the consumers. The FAO worries that food prices could even rise to the levels they were at during the world food crisis of 2008, when hungry citizens across ...
Australian Scientist Warns of Looming Global Famine
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- At an international agricultural biotechnology conference in Canada, an Australian scientist and journalist gave a dire keynote address Monday, warning global governments to pay greater attention to the possibility of coming global famine. "This is a big issue -- it is the biggest issue, it is bigger than the global financial crisis, and it is more urgent than climate change because it's going to happen quicker," Julian Cribb told his audience at the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference, according to The StarPhoenix. "Worst-case scenario is that you will see ...
Where McCartney Is Right: The Need For New and Inventive Green Solutions
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyRecently, my fellow contributor Joshua Chaney wrote a post in which he argued that environmental policy is rooted in faulty economics. I fundamentally disagree with his claim. In the piece, "McCartney's Meat Free Mondays: Letting a Few Bad Apples Kill the Entire Tree," Joshua raised several examples of what he believes fits this theory. First, as the headline of his post implies, Joshua criticized the efforts of Paul McCartney to promote Meat Free Monday, an "environmental campaign to raise awareness of the climate-changing impact of meat production and consumption," (according to the Web ...
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