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Subject: Asia America Initiative - The Global Food Crisis

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charles KING
Posts:19
06/09/2008 5:04 PM Alert 

www.asiaamerica.org/publications/aif/aif-22-2008.htm     On April 3, 2008, World Bank President Robert Zoellick alerted the international community that global food shortages and rising cost of staple foods could cause widespread instability. Food shortages combined with rising fuel prices, global climate changes, the international financial meltdown epitomized by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, and the cost of wars and local armed conflicts pose a multi-faceted threat to international stability. The World Bank estimates that 33 countries around the world face potential political and social unrest because of the acute hike in food and energy prices. . . . A new Cold War is taking shape, around energy and food. The world intelligentsia has been asleep at the wheel. While we rage over global warming, global hunger has swept in under the radar.

Do you agree that this is as serious an issue? Glad to hear your thoughts or receive additional information
Norma Talosig
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06/11/2008 3:55 PM Alert 
I agree that the issue on food shortage is a serious one. Food crisis is a slow onset problem that it escaped the watchful eyes of the world intelligentsia. Unless the several underlying factors that contribute to food crisis like, climate change, increasing rate of population growth, unplanned urbanization, decreasing cropland, etc. are addressed then the problem may blow up into a situation that may be very difficult to recover from. Adverse effects of slow onset disasters, that includes the drivers, would take many, many years to rehabilitate. While it is is not too late yet to intervene, collective measures (local, national, regional and International) should be undertaken now to mitigate and prepare for this kind of crisis.
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