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Feeding frenzy.(New World Order)(food shortages and international conflict)
FOOD. MAN'S most-essential resource. And now a cause of war? For years, strategists, policy makers and the rest of the foreign-policy cadre worried the world's vanishing resources would be the cause of conflict. But of course, with energy assets concentrated in the Middle East and crude-oil prices rising from a historical average of $18 a barrel to more than $100 a barrel today, most scenarios centered on a war over oil. At their most imaginative, people have planned for water shortages as a trigger. What no one seemed to be expecting was serious political instability caused by a lack of food.
This is not just threat mongering. Experts around the world have ...
- UN Warns of More Food Shortages Without Strong Action; Madrid meeting takes on...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 27, 2009 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-27 January 2009-WORLD BANK GROUP: UN Warns of More Food Shortages Without Strong Action...Managing Director of the World Bank. "Food prices are highly...orgJulia Barrera, For the World Bank in Spaine-mail: jbarrera...
- Church leaders say food shortages threaten disaster. (World).(famine in...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Donovan, Gill March 15, 2002 700+ words
...population could face starvation. Food shortages have reached the point that...Monetary Fund, European Union, World Bank and humanitarian agencies. The government has blamed the food shortages on flooding last year. But critics...
- World Bank funds Government of Malawi to implement CODA financial management...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 28, 2003 700+ words
...implementation forms part of the World Bank's US $24 million Financial...management specialist at the World Bank: "Malawi remains very poor...AIDS, recent severe drought and food shortages. World Bank financing will help the Government...
- World Bank Funds Government of Malawi to Implement CODA Financial Management...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 28, 2003 700+ words
...implementation forms part of the World Bank's $24 million Financial Management...management specialist at the World Bank: "Malawi remains very poor...AIDS, recent severe drought and food shortages. World Bank financing will help the Government...
- Global food shortages, rising prices threaten public health: advocates call for...
- Magazine article from: The Nation's Health Krisberg, Kim June 1, 2008 700+ words
...United States as well. In April, the World Bank reported that global food prices rose...behind. Up to 100 million people, the World Bank estimated, could be pushed deeper into...food crisis began." Though stories of food shortages and hunger-driven unrest only recently...
- Palestinians see growing food shortages.(WORLD)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 7, 2007 700+ words
...percent in 2006, according to a preliminary estimate by the World Bank. The reversal of three consecutive years of growth was also...working with the international community to ensure there are no food shortages in the territories," says Mark Regev, a spokesman for...
- BANGLADESH-AGRICULTURE: GLOOMY FUTURE OF FOOD SHORTAGES
- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Tabibul Islam December 15, 1995 700+ words
...faces a serious food shortage, says the World Bank which has warned of widespread famine...country's population toil on the land. World Bank resident mission chief P. Landell Mills...cut subsidies in 1992, he said. The World Bank, however, considers subsidies detrimental...
- Book Predicts Food Shortages
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Gary Lee August 14, 1994 700+ words
...Similar projections earlier this century were proved largely wrong by the sharp increase in crop yields. Specialists at the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) disagree with Brown's conclusions. Worldwide grain output...
