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UN forecasts period of “food volatility and supply disruptions”
Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN World Food Programme The world is going into a period of food volatility and supply disruptions due in part to weather related problems and a backdrop of rising prices, the UN World Food Program's executive director said.
“We are entering an era of food volatility and disruptions in supplies. This is a very serious business for the world,” Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Programme, told Insider TV on the sidelines of a UN Conference in London.
“If people don't have enough to eat they only have three options: they can revolt, they can migrate or they can die. We need a better action plan,” she said.
“We think that we are in an era where we have to be very serious about food supply”.
Earlier the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said world food prices hit a record in January.
Recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East.
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Read all commentswould it not be a good idea for the free world to grow more food,
Feb 03rd, 2011 - 10:31 pm 0but not before the EU gets rid of its food mountain ,
instead of giving it to the poor, they just bury and destroy it,
what a waste what incompetence, what arrogance,
We already knew about Egypt in 2008 what happened between then and now ?? oopppss Egypt runned out of subsidy money this is the reason we need high export tax on all none-renewable limited resources, this kind of things will keep happening all over the world as long as we keep living in denial, UK, USA or China could be next, any president not taking this news seriouly can and will be next, because hunger doesn't really care for guns or tanks.
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With food price inflation over 20% ... Argentina could be next!
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