Global Food Crisis
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Recent sharp fluctuations in food prices have set off protests in more than 30 countries, and are revealing the dangerous vulnerability of the global food system. Although prices have dropped recently, their volatility and unpredictability are wreaking havoc on farmers and consumers. The number of undernourished people in the world increased to 923 million in 2007, according to the UNís Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), setting back progress made toward reducing hunger in the world by more than a decade.
The global industrialized food system is destroying the planet and millions of lives. We must take back control of our food system so that it meets the human right to food before profits. Instead of helping to solve the food crisis, our industrial food system helped to create and continues to perpetuate it. To solve the food crisis, we need to fix the food system.
- US Working Group on the Food Crisis
- Food First
Policy Brief on the World Food Crisis
The Food Crisis Comes Home
Twin Tsunamis: The World Food and Financial Crises
Understanding the Food Crisis: A debate between Eric Holt-Giménez and Rob Lyons
Inflation and Speculation: Ingredients for the Next Food Crisis?
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Sustainable Agriculture Versus Unregulated Financial Markets
The Global Food Price Crisis
- Foreign Policy in Focus, August 2008
The Food Crisis and Global Institutions
- Mimi Schneider, Cornell University Development Sociology
We Are Hungry
A Summary Report of Food Riots, Government Responses, and States of Democracy in 2008
- International Food Policy Research Institute
The World Food Situation: New Driving Forces and Required Actions
- Grassroots International
An Answer to the Global Food Crisis:
Peasants and small farmers can feed the world.
- Monthly Review, Fred Magdoff
The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions
- James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
“The Perils of Efficiency”
- Dollars & Sense
Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies: What’s behind higher food prices?
- New York Times Editorial
Man-Made Hunger
