World Bank issues hunger warning after droughts in US and Europe

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/aug/30/world-bank-global-hunger-warning-drought?intcmp=122


The World Bank issued a global hunger warning last night after severe droughts in the US and eastern Europe sent food prices to a record high.

Damage to crop harvests from exceptionally dry weather this year raised sharply the Bank's food price index taking it above its peak in early 2011.

The Washington-based bank blamed the drought in the US for the 25% price rise of maize and 17% price rise in soya beans last month, adding that a dry summer in Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan lay behind the 25% jump in the cost of wheat.

"Food prices rose again sharply threatening the health and well-being of millions of people," said World Bank group president, Jim Yong Kim. "Africa and the Middle East are particularly vulnerable, but so are people in other countries where the prices of grains have gone up abruptly."

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1. This is the beginning of one the biggest realities/stories of the 21st Century

...and the Republicans are still in massive, mean-spirited, corporately-funded, greedy-ass, 1% soul-sick stupid and selfish DENIAL of it.

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2. Lots of magazines are publishing stories on communities growing food

As the Republican-values corporate-industrial mutant polluting system creaks and cracks and groans, across the fruited plains wise folks in cities, suburbs and countryside are not waiting for the shit to hit the fan, but are moving into action...

http://www.lilipoh.com/past_issues/2010Issues/Fall2010/Agrarian_Initiatives.aspx