Why are tortillas now tied to oil prices?

Global food prices are spiralling skyward. 
From Cameroon to Mexico, riots have erupted as staples like rice and corn flour become unaffordable. In Pakistan, wheat flour prices have doubled. World soybean prices are at record highs. 
The U.N. World Food Organisation (WFP) has warned of a “new hunger” spreading across the globe, plunging poorer countries into unrest [...]

Haiti at a Glance

 
Population : 8.3 million
Surface area : 27.8 thousand sq. km
Population per sq. km : 299
Population growth : 1.8 %
Life expectancy : 52 years
GNI per capita : US$ 440
GDP : US$ 3.6 billion
Source: World Development Indicators 2003 Database
 

Haiti food riots

Violent unrest in Haiti has spread to the capital after protesters enraged by rising food prices stormed the presidential palace, demanding that the government lift taxes on rice and beans.
At least five people have been killed in Haiti during a week of protests. In a country where 80% of people earn less than £1 a [...]

Egypt: Mass protests over price hikes

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Global rice crisis hits home

For the first time in history, the international price of rice has doubled within a year, creating panic as some Asian countries hoard stockpiles of the staple and limit trade with countries dependent on rice imports, like Canada.
“This is the worst we’ve seen in the history of rice sales in Canada,” said John Chiang, [...]

The cost of food: facts and figures

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The Great Biofuel Famine

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France says food should take priority over biofuel

Production of food must take precedence globally over biofuels as prices surge and the threat of famine grows, France’s farm minister said on Friday, calling for a European Union initiative on world supplies.
“Absolute priority must be given to agricultural production for food,” French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier told Reuters, saying France would unveil proposals at [...]

Sowing the wind, we reap the whirlwind

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Never did God give man such a sunny day that the authorities couldn’t make it rain. As near as we can tell, nature favoured Argentina as she did few other places. She caused the Andes to rise up and then over millions of years let their hillsides wash downriver to be deposited in a vast, [...]

Global Food Crisis: New for Some, but Chronic for Africa?

In 21st century, assertively presented as the ‘information age’, quite considerable portion of the world’s population live in a severely desperate conditions of poverty, deprivation and hunger.
Now is another phase of the poverty, which is truly global in contemporary world: It is the food crisis that has been triggered by the dramatically increaseing prices. The [...]