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...cluster of factors is depleting the world's supply of grains. In Europe, the U.S. and Asia, more farmers are growing crops, especially corn, not as food but for conversion into biofuel. Meanwhile, demand for food is surging in China and India, where hundreds of millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more. Though the demand in these countries is for less rice and more meat and fish, this increases the consumption of grain in the form of feed: it takes 7-15 kg of grain to produce a kilogram of meat. Record-high oil prices and escalating freight costs...
...normal year, Australia exports 85% of its rice production as branded product to some 70 markets through Asia, the Middle East, the South Pacific and other destinations. So it is that although Australian rice represents only 0.2% of world rice production, it accounts for more than 4% of the global rice trade - enough to feed 40 million people one meal a day for a year...
...virtues of a strong central government and disdain the weaknesses of the democratic system." Kagan notes that "Russian leaders today yearn not for integration with the West but for a return to a special Russian greatness." As for China, its "trend towards regional hegemony is unstoppable" - and "Asia is not the E.U., and China is not Luxembourg." Adding to the unsettling complexity of this situation, writes Kagan, this "club of autocrats" includes a potentially destabilizing junior partner: Iran...
...have a boomerang effect," adds Peñafiel. "She's going to get exactly what she didn't want, which is to become more famous." Perhaps anticipating that effect, Ortiz and her partner have already put in a request with the Red Cross to return them to jobs in Asia, far from the Spanish paparazzi. Or at least that is what the pink press is reporting...
...such as India has not kept up with the incredible social changes under way in the country's cities and towns. The green revolution of three decades ago helped keep the country from starvation, but since then productivity growth in Indian agriculture has hardly moved. Dan Toole, the South Asia regional director for the United Nations Children's Fund, says India is suffering from "a very serious neglect of agriculture in terms of investment." India, he says, "is perhaps the solution but is also part of the problem." What's needed is massive investment in farming, more assistance...