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Mail Call: A Global Problem.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Readers of our May 19 coverage of the world food shortage expressed concern. One wrote, "we can't afford uncontrolled population growth." Another said, "rich countries must lift barriers to farm imports." A third, linking oil prices to food scarcity, advised "economic sanctions for OPEC countries."
A Universal Crisis in Agriculture
The world has enjoyed relatively cheap food for decades, thanks to the continuously lavish subsidies by the United States and the successful green revolution of the 1970s. But lately, global food prices have been escalating sky-high, and triggering panic among the impoverished, resulting in protest after protest in developing ...
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