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...world will need more than divine intervention to end the food crisis that has ripped across the planet during the past few months. Prices for almost every staple food - rice, wheat, maize, sugar, milk - are soaring at rates of inflation not seen on such a global scale in a generation, resulting in hoarding, widespread food shortages and fears of outright famine in the world's poorest countries. Rice prices have nearly tripled since January, reaching $1,000 per metric ton last month in India. Wheat has doubled in price in a year and jumped 25% in just...
...Natsios, former chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and now a professor of international development at Georgetown University. A more flexible approach could dramatically improve the world's ability to feed itself. As proof, Natsios cites a USAID project that sent Afghan farmers a genetically modified wheat strain immediately after the Taliban's defeat in 2002, resulting in a massive harvest that year. "Farmers told me it was a miracle of Allah," he says...
...field: on June 1 the Socceroos eked out a 1-0 win in qualifying skirmishes for the 2010 World Cup. In Geelong, ships were loading the first grain shipments for Iraq since 2006, and Australian farmers were hopeful that the country would be restored as one of their biggest wheat markets...
...Giant bins and buckets filled with split peas, bulgher wheat, and dried beans crowd the dining room walls. Bulk food is bought weekly, and the freezer boasts vegan treats like cartons of organic, non-dairy ice cream. The students bake their own bread daily...
...They might be hard-pressed to locate the country of 15 million on a world map, or to know that it sits atop about 100 billion barrels of oil and is one of the world's biggest producers of both wheat and uranium, but anyone in the West who pays even the most cursory attention to popular culture will almost certainly, thanks to Borat, have heard of Kazakhstan. Then again, the image of the country created by the movie couldn't be more appallingly crass. But it's all relative. Kazakhstan's neighbors include: Uzbekistan, which regularly makes news...