African inflation could cause ‘humanitarian tsunami’

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Cosatu to march against rising food prices

The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) will stage the first of a series of protests against rising food prices in a march through Polokwane in Limpopo on Sunday, spokesperson Patrick Craven said on Friday.
The march, to be bolstered by alliance partner the South African Communist Party (SACP), will proceed to the Polokwane Magistrate’s [...]

Food crisis sparking conflict

openDemocracy
Riots in Haiti, violent protests in Ivory Coast, forty killed in riots in Cameroon, demonstrations in Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Bolivia, Indonesia, and now Egypt. The alarming increase in food prices is sparking conflicts throughout the world. On Tuesday, the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince came to a stand-still as protestors slammed the government for the [...]

Severe drought in Spain stirs up regional tensions

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And:
China drought leaves 670,000 without drinking water

Food Or Fuel?

Times of India
The plan is to have renewable energy sources like biofuels to meet up to 10 per cent of India’s transport needs by 2017. In order to achieve that goal a Group of Ministers headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is finalising a national policy which could see some 12 million hectares of land [...]

Can’t eat ethanol

Boston Globe
CORN should be used for food, not motor fuel, and yet the United States is committed to a policy that encourages farmers to turn an increasing amount of their crop into ethanol. This may save the nation a bit of the cost of imported oil, but it increases global-warming gases and contributes to higher [...]

Global Food Fights

It takes a decent respect for the obvious truth to admit that mankind has no control over the climate. What is occurring, however, based on actual and anecdotal information, is a trend toward global cooling. Between rising food costs driven by an environmental agenda and real, not imagined climate change, the word famine is going [...]

Is hybrid rice the answer?

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And then:
Rice farmers can be millionaires, says executive

NE China province braces for drought

Different localities in northeast China’s Liaoning Province have been taking pains to combat a drought that has forced 670,000 residents, plus 230,000 head of livestock, out of drinking water.
Local governments in Liaoning have raised 23 million yuan (about 3.15 million U.S. dollars) on their own and have been busy organizing personnel to dredge, expand [...]

‘India Less Vulnerable To Food Crisis’

Read in Outlook India.