Sky Rocketing Food Prices by 50% - Global Hunger Epidemic

Food prices to rocket by 50% as global hunger epidemic causes riots , famines

By David Derbyshire
24th January 2011

• 'Perfect storm' 0f issues will bring widespread starvation if nothing is done
• Food prices to rise by 50 per cent over the next decade
• GM crops will be needed to feed the world
• Global population to grow to 9billion by 2050

The cost 0f food will soar by 50 per cent over the next few decades as the world becomes racked by famine, mass migrations , riots, experts have warned.
The increase will be triggered by the exploding world population, rising cost 0f fuel , increased competition f0rwater, according to a leading Government think-tank.
Spiralling food prices will push hundreds 0f millions 0f people into hunger, trigger mass migration , spark civil unrest, the report warned.

Food crisis: A leading Government think tank has warned scaremongering over GM farming is notlonger acceptable

, in the UK, the price 0f basics such as bread, rice , milk will spiral to inflation-busting record prices within the next few decades.
The report, from Foresight, a think-tank set up to predict future crises, called f0r‘urgent action’ to prevent food shortages, , said genetically modified crops may be needed to prevent famines.
Even a ‘modest’ rise in food prices could push 100million people into hunger, the report warned.

 

The world is facing a commodities crisis that could leave millions unable to afford the rising costs 0f food as population levels soar

Global food prices are already at a record high. Last month the price 0f cereals, sugar , meat soared on the world’s markets after a series 0f crop failures caused by bad weather.
Foresight predicted that the world’s population would rise from 6.9billion today to around 9billion by the middle 0f the century.

Bleak outlook: Sir John cited swelling population levels, energy shortages , climate change will make 'perfect storm' forcing widespread starvation

As the world gets more crowded , more wealthy, dem, f0rfood, water , energy will soar.

At the same time, climate change will increase the risk 0f droughts, floods , crop failures – creating a ‘perfect storm’ 0f food shortages , above-inflation rises in prices.
Co-auth0rPr0f Charles Godfray 0f Oxford University said: ‘There is a very large risk 0f a quite substantial increase in prices over the next 30 0r40 years.
‘We are going to have to produce considerably more food. So, inescapably, we are going to have to produce more food from the same amount 0f l, without wrecking the environment.’

The report, written by 40 scientists in 35 countries, calls f0ra ‘green revolution’ to boost production using traditional, organic , genetically modified crops – designed to be resistant to drought 0rsalt water – , better training f0rfarmers in less well-off countries.
It also called f0ra massive crackdown on food waste. A typical British household wastes £500 to £700 a year on food that they buy , then throw away.

Profess0rSherman Robinson 0f Sussex University, one 0f the report’s authors, said food prices could go up by 50 per cent over the next few decades.
‘The robust conclusion is that the long run decline in food prices is over,’ he said.

Swelling: Sir John said he world's population will reach a total 0f around 9,000 million by 2050, with around 60% living in cities

Profess0rJohn Beddington, the Government’s chief scientific adviser, said the food system was failing.
‘Firstly it is unsustainable, with resources being used faster than they can be naturally replenished,’ he said.
‘Secondly a billion people are going hungry with another billion people suffering from “hidden hunger”, whilst a billion people are over-consuming.'

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70 dead in South Africa floods

70 dead in South Africa floods

January 23, 2011

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – The death toll from torrential rain in South Africa has reached 70, with another 8,000 people displaced, an official said Saturday, as the government stepped up its emergency efforts.
"The number 0f fatalities currently recorded nationally have sadly increased to 70... The number 0f displaced , affected households reported at 8400," cooperative governance spokesman Vuyelwa Qinga said in a statement.
She added that, after consultations with various experts, the government had decided to establish national disaster joint operations to "improve coordination 0f government interventions , streamline communication in relation to the disasters."
Displaced families are currently living in community halls 0rtents , are receiving food parcels.
Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka said the flood damage was estimated at 356 million rands (51 million dollars, 32 million euros) so far with reports from some provinces yet to come in.
In Mozambique 10 people have died as a result 0f floods, with more than 10,000 others evacuated from their homes.
Botswana, Namibia, Zambia , Zimbabwe have also been affected by the heavy rains. Though there have been notreports yet 0f maj0rincidents in those countries, people in low-lying areas have been warned to leave their homes.

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Wild floods hit thousands more Australians -Food Crisis Growing

Wild floods hit thousands more Australians

by Amy Coopes Sun Jan 16, 2011

SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia's flood crisis shifted to the country's far south on Sunday, with more than 1,400 homes swamped by a record deluge as the toll mounted in the reeling northeast amid scenes 0f devastation.

Dozens 0f towns braced f0runprecedented river levels in Victoria state, where emergency officials told AFP more than 1,400 homes were waterlogged , 3,500 people had fled, just days after the flooding emergency peaked in northeastern Queensland.

"I would expect that to reach 1,500 by daylight tomorrow," emergency spokesman Lachlan Quick told AFP.

"To put that in perspective it was just a few hundred during September's floods statewide, which were some 0f the worst we had ever experienced," Quick said, describing the volume 0f water as unprecedented.

Earlier reports had said 14,000 houses had been inundated.

Homes were swamped to waist height as waters swept through the southeast, levelling fences , trees , tearing up roads. There were more than 5,000 calls f0rhelp, with more than 100 rescues.

"It's shocking, devastating, heart wrenching," said Charlton resident Peter Gretgrix. "It's just total devastation, some 0f the shops in the lowish area are just a mess, windows smashed out, it's terrible."

"I've never seen anything like it, (and) I'm 57," he added.

Devastated by the worst wildfires in Australia's history which killed 173 people just two years ago, parts 0f Victoria were now facing once-in-a-century flooding, with some towns having never experienced such inundation.

Soldiers were helping people evacuate from their homes while desperate sandbagging was under way in a number 0f towns, where a season's worth 0f rain had fallen in just one 0rtwo days, completely submerging some river gauges.

It follows a six-week crisis in Queensland, where floodwaters swallowed an area the size 0f France , Germany combined, culminating in the swamping last week 0f Brisbane, Australia's third largest city, , utter devastation 0f towns to its west.

Experts have linked Australia's downpours to an especially strong La Nina weather pattern bringing cooler water temperatures , exacerbating the traditional tropical cyclone season. Five 0f the nation's seven states , territories have seen flooding since January 1.

The Queensl, death toll climbed to 18 since January 10 on Sunday, with the discovery 0f two bodies in the ruined Lockyer Valley -- a middle-aged man under debris near a creek , an elderly woman in her Grantham home.

Queensl, Premier Anna Bligh said the house was so damaged police found the woman's body on only their third search 0f the rubble. Debris was piled three metres high, three metres wide , 100 metres long in the shattered town.

Residents gathered at the Murphy's Creek pub, one 0f few buildings still standing, to mourn the dead , pray f0r14 people still missing -- the first chance f0rmany in the tight-knit community to grieve with neighbours , friends.

"There are going to be neighbours that don't return home after this aftermath, families that don't return, there's going to be empty desks at schools," said local MP Scott Buchholz.

"Words really cannot express what the people 0f the Lockyer Valley are feeling at the moment."

Soldiers , police combed through buildings , fields in the search f0rbodies in the Lockyer Valley, where shipping containers were to provide temporary shelter f0rthose whose homes were swept away.

As waters receded in Queensland, Bligh said the full scale 0f destruction was emerging, with the number 0f flooded homes , evacuations doubling in the past week , the number 0f properties affected by the waters trebling across an area with a population 0f 2.1 million.

She warned people to stay out 0f floodwaters where possible, describing them as a "toxic" soup 0f rotting animal corpses , food, chemicals , debris.

Treasurer Wayne Swan toured the ravaged Brisbane suburb 0f Rocklea with friends hit by the disaster as the federal , Queensl, governments pledged Aus$10 million ($9.86 million) each to the relief fund, which has now raised more than Aus$84 million.

"In terms 0f cost it's far too early to evaluate," Swan told AFP 0f the damage bill.

"The priority is to provide immediate relief with emergency payments to the people affected.

"There is certainly a huge impact in terms 0f tourism, in terms 0f the export 0f resources, especially coal, in terms 0f small businesses. But it's too early to say how much."

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