Hunger Pains: the Impact of Trade on the Global Food Crisis
A collapsed government in Haiti, deadly rioting in Egypt and protests in at least 25 other countries—all resulting from the rising cost of food around the world. A food crisis has emerged rapidly in the last 18-36 months, a crisis quickly threatening to add an additional 100 million to the worlds already 850 million starving. “People are literally dying of hunger,” said Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki, an expert in International Development and a hopeful in Afghanistan’s 2009 presidential elections….
