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The hungry planet
As stocks run out and harvests fail, the world faces its worst crisis for 30 years
Source: Copyright 2006, Independent (UK)
Date: September 3, 2006
Byline: Geoffrey Lean
Original URL: Status ONLINE
Food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world
into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. New figures show that this
year's harvest will fail to produce enough to feed everyone on Earth, for the
sixth time in the past seven years. Humanity has so far managed by eating its
way through stockpiles built up in better times - but these have now fallen
below the danger level.
Food prices have already started to rise as a result, and threaten to soar out
of reach of many of the 4.2 billion people who live in the world's most
vulnerable countries. And the new "green" drive to get cars to run on biofuels
threatens to make food even scarcer and more expensive.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA), which produce the world's two main forecasts of the global
crop production, both estimate that this year's grain harvest will fall for the
second successive ...
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