The World Food Crisis
Many countries have experienced at first hand the outbreak of hungry people every day having less opportunity to feed due to some of the basic factors like increased food prices and energy. These countries are Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Madagascar and many more and all these countries have experienced the same crisis at different point in there history.
The matter is so serious that even the UN is saying, although being somewhat skeptical, that this situation stinks. In an internal memo that was leaked to the press, the UN believes that international concern for this situation as one of the biggest concerns is that the whole system of emergency food aid can not cope with the crisis. We need to launch specific emergency plans to respond to the needs of all urban populations.
The famous hunger riots that occurred in various countries around the world these days have sounded all the alarms, because according to Jean Ziegler a special Adviser of UN for right to food, are not cyclical but structural and can easily be anticipated in the immediate term, as a long period of unrest, conflict, uncontrollable wave of destabilization that could lead to despair for millions of poor in the world. According to the UN, every 1% increase in the price of food leads to 16 million people mired in food insecurity which would lead to the following trend, about 1200 million people in 2025 will be on the line of suffering due to chronic hunger.
What are the causes and most importantly who are the culprits. Undoubtedly, the global leaders of major developed and emerging countries are well aware of the situation. No doubt much of that gets blamed on the European and American bio-fuel usage, as in the U.S only agricultural policy based on subsidies of U.S $6000 million.
To rampant debt faced by developing countries, count is almost 122 countries in 2007 owed something like $2 trillion and there are structural adjustment plans imposed by the IMF. The high degree of commitment to the war, especially by more developed countries and the defensive measures of the oil-producing countries and finally, the savage and predatory capitalism that greed is no longer called wild simply because it has engulfed even the same forest.
