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Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise
THE world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years. http://tinyurl.com /2k4xdx World Grain Demand Straining U.S. Supply Consumers... ...
Soaring global wheat prices increase hunger for millions of Afghans
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Afghanistan today urged the international community to fund a sharp increase in needed food assistance for the poor of Afghanistan who... ...
New Inflation Data Explain Middle-Class Squeeze
Kevin G. Hall reports for McClatchy Newspapers: "New data from the Labor Department confirm what most middle-class Americans already know: Inflation is squeezing them. As consumer prices rose by 4.1 percent... ...
A horrible idea
The Libertarian Enterprise by L. Neil Smith 12/30/07 My point is that, whatever else is said and done about the price of gas, it has absolutely nothing to do with scarcity. Libertarians and conservative... ...
Will you have food to eat next year?
Tent City in Suburbs Is Cost of Home Crisis Dana Ford, reporting for Reuters, writes: "Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits 'tent city,' a terminus for homeless people.... ...
World food price rises set to hit consumers
Global food prices were under further pressure on Monday as benchmark prices for cereals at much higher levels came into operation, making it almost inevitable that a second wave of food price inflation... ...
Adding to the List of Worries, Signs That Inflation Is Bubbling Up
Economists and central bankers have worried for months that soaring food and energy costs could lead to higher inflation, but investors had shrugged off those concerns, preferring to focus on the slowdown... ...
Food Prices Climbing, With No End in Sight
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2007/12/06/5656/ http://freepage.twoday .net/search?q=food+prices ...
Western Hunger for Biofuels Causing Starvation in the Poor World
The Guardian UK's George Monbiot says, "Even the International Monetary Fund, always ready to immolate the poor on the altar of business, now warns that using food to produce biofuels "might further strain... ...
As Prices Soar, U.S. Food Aid Buys Less
Soaring food prices, driven in part by demand for ethanol made from corn, have helped slash the amount of food aid the government buys to its lowest level in a decade, possibly resulting in more hungry... ...