Mexican tortilla prices ‘up 18%’

BBC
The price of tortillas, a staple food in Mexico, are set to rise 18% in the next few weeks, an industry group says.
Thousands of people protested against tortilla price rises in Mexico last year and they have become a big political issue.
The National Chamber for the Tortilla and Dough Industry told Reuters that [...]

Irrigation water shortage could mean disaster for Uzbekistan

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Pakistan’s poor go hungry amid food shortages

Sukena, a middle-aged mother of two girls, argued with a shopkeeper as she reached her hands into the pockets of her burqa and counted money. All she had was 25 rupees (35 cents), barely enough to buy bread but no milk in the port city of Karachi.
‘Just a year ago, I could easily afford [...]

Japan gov’t warns low food self-sufficiency, global shortages may lead to drastic diet changes

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Zimbabwe: Country Among African Countries Facing Food Crisis

ZIMBABWE is one of the African countries likely to be hardest hit by rising food prices, an international news agency reported, citing an African Development Bank (AfDB) chief economist, Louis Kasekende.
Kasekende told Reuters that Zimbabwe was one of the African countries expected to bear the brunt of surging global food and oil prices, which would [...]

Indian Village Water Crisis

Faced with a drinking water shortage, people in India’s eastern Gaya district are forced to drink filthy water, unfit even for cleaning purposes.

Bush advisor downplays ethanol’s role in food prices

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The Last Bite

Is the world’s food system collapsing?
by Bee Wilson in The New Yorker
In his “Essay on the Principle of Population,” of 1798, the English parson Thomas Malthus insisted that human populations would always be “checked” (a polite word for mass starvation) by the failure of food supplies to keep pace with population growth. For a long [...]