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Rory Carroll, The Guardian UK: "The global food and fuel crisis has hit Haiti harder than perhaps any other country, pushing a population mired in extreme poverty towards starvation and revolt. Hunger burns are called 'swallowing Clorox,' a brand of bleach. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization predicts Haiti's food import bill will leap 80 percent this year, the fastest in the world."

https://www.truthout.org/article/half-haitians-face-starvation



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Video

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

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From Information Clearing House

For The Guardian UK, Xan Rice reports: "More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say. In an emergency appeal launched today, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed 'towards severe hunger and destitution.' Earlier this week the UN said it needed £200m to avert a humanitarian disaster."

https://www.truthout.org/article/rising-food-prices-pushing-east-africa-disaster-warns-oxfam

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Food & Water Watch: Trade Negotiations Cannot Solve Food Crisis Created by WTO and World Bank

https://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0724-12.htm

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Food sovereignty, not more deregulation, is the answer to global food crisis
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7764/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Let Them Eat Free Markets

David Moberg writes for In These Times on how deregulation is fueling the world food crisis: "In April, crowds of angry Haitians - reduced to eating mud cakes to staunch hunger - erupted in deadly protests against high food prices, forcing the prime minister to resign. The price of rice, a staple of the Haitian diet, had risen 16 percent on the world market last year, then shot up 141 percent from January to April. Around the world, similar riots - or fears of them - have pushed governments to restrict exports, reduce tariffs, attack hoarding and take other desperate measures as prices of virtually all major food commodities have spiked - and often fluctuated wildly."

https://www.truthout.org/article/let-them-eat-free-markets

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Nahrungsmittelkrise in Ost-Afrika: Über 20 Millionen Menschen von Hungersnot bedroht

Oxfam versorgt 500.000 Hungernde mit Lebensmitteln und Trinkwasser.
https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684009ms111



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Recent rising food costs threaten to undercut what modest progress has been achieved, while three quarters of people living in least developed countries (LDCs) still survive on less than $2 a day, it said in a report.

https://africa.reuters.com/country/LS/news/usnL17852821.html


From Information Clearing House



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Mit Vollgas gegen die Wand
https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28280/1.html

The New Republic
by Suzy Khimm

The Guardian says they have a leaked report from the World Bank that biofuels are responsible for 75% of the recent rise in food prices …. The study’s figures contrast sharply with the USDA’s assertion that biofuels only account for some 3% of the price hikes. But according to the Guardian’s description of the study, biofuels have distorted food markets by: 1) Diverting grain away from fuel; 2) Incentivizing farmers to devote land for biofuel production; and 3) Sparking financial speculation in grain markets. But though the report was finalized in April, the World Bank has yet to release the findings...

https://tinyurl.com/5rh4b2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Reason

by Ronald Bailey

07/08/08

The price of staples like corn, wheat, and rice are escalating, indicating that demand is outstripping supplies. Why? Because of political and economic institutional failures, not overpopulation. First, let’s deal with the claim that human population, like the populations of all other animals, expands as food supplies increase. On a global level that certainly looks plausible. As the amount of food increased over the last century, world population rose from 1.5 billion in 1900 to 6.6 billion today. Case closed? Not so fast. Consider that countries with the highest food security are also the same countries with below replacement total fertility rates. If the availability of food was the chief determinant of birth rates, then one would expect Iowa farmers would spawn more kids than any group on the planet. Instead, it is countries in which food insecurity is greatest that have the highest total fertility rates...

https://www.reason.com/news/show/127428.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Women Hardest Hit by Food Crisis

Kevin Sullivan, of The Washington Post: "Rubbing her red-rimmed eyes, chewing lightly on a twig she picked off the ground, Lingani gave the last of her food to the children. 'I'm not hungry,' she said. In poor nations, such as Burkina Faso in the heart of West Africa, mealtime conspires against women. They grow the food, fetch the water, shop at the market and cook the meals. But when it comes time to eat, men and children eat first, and women eat last and least."

https://www.truthout.org/article/women-hardest-hit-food-crisis



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Secret report
https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy



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