Too bad we can not cross with the first article,
the last one speaks just wheat and the first one talks about cereals in its totality.
A new food crisis threatens the world
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Well now, almost 2 years have passed since the last post and I read:
Let's eliminate these virtual markets from fools and we will eliminate the pressure on food prices!
source: http://www.orange.fr/bin/frame.cgi?u=ht ... larme.htmlFood crisis: World Bank rings alarm
The World Bank, which was convening its Development Committee on Sunday, called on member governments to intervene urgently to prevent the food crisis from further depleting some 100 million people around the world.
"On the basis of a summary analysis, we estimate that doubling food prices over the last three years could push deeper into misery 100 million people living in poor countries", explained the president of the institution Robert Zoellick.
Representatives of donor countries discussed a massive plan to fight malnutrition announced earlier this month by Zoellick, who compared it in scale to the American "New Deal" after the Great Depression.
The world is heading "towards a very long period of riots" and conflicts linked to rising prices and food shortages, said Jean Ziegler, United Nations special rapporteur for the right to food , in an interview with Liberation published Monday. "We are heading towards a very long period of riots, conflicts, waves of uncontrollable regional destabilization, marked with a hot iron by the despair of the most vulnerable populations," he told the French daily. "Before the soaring prices already (...) 854 million people were seriously undernourished. It is an announced massacre ", warns Mr. Ziegler.
The hunger riots that are spreading around the world have become a priority of the spring assemblies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, this weekend in the American capital. The World Bank considers that 33 states in the world are threatened with political unrest and social unrest because of the sharp rise in the prices of agricultural and energy products. The file will be discussed during the G8 Finances, in June in Japan. "But, frankly, we can't wait until then," admitted Zoellick.
Mr. Zoellick had warned that the crisis could result in "seven wasted years" in eradicating hunger in the world. "Food prices, if they continue as they do now, (...) the consequences will be terrible", had for his part launched the day before Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF. "As we have learned in the past, these kinds of situations sometimes end in war."
The World Bank (WB) will provide 10 million dollars to the country and send experts there to help the authorities respond to the crisis. Zoellick said the World Food Program (WFP) had already received more than half of the $ 500 million it requested from the international community by May 1. But it's not enough". "It remains urgent for governments to intervene," he stressed.
Present in 78, where it feeds 73 millions of people, WFP is the largest humanitarian agency in the world and plays a key role in food security. The Agency has provided food aid to nearly 88 million people in 78 countries worldwide in 2006.
The World Bank, for its part, plans to almost double its agricultural lending in Africa to 800 million. The organization estimates that the rise in wheat prices reached 181% in three years and that of food prices 83% over the same period.
In recent months, the outbreak has led to violent protests in Egypt, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Philippines, Indonesia ... In Haiti, the poorest country in the world, In the United States, the Prime Minister was dismissed Saturday after more than a week of riots caused by soaring prices for gasoline and food products.
Soaring prices for rice, wheat, corn, cooking oil, milk and other food products come amid the financial crisis. According to the French Minister of the Economy Christine Lagarde, it is largely she who encourages investors to invest in commodity markets, causing soaring food prices. "Let's deal with the financial crisis and we will remove some of the pressure on food prices," she said.
Let's eliminate these virtual markets from fools and we will eliminate the pressure on food prices!
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Quite bham ...
Do not stop it makes strong the World Bank: it is its system the main person in charge of the situation then it is really the hospital which does not care about the charity ...
Do not stop it makes strong the World Bank: it is its system the main person in charge of the situation then it is really the hospital which does not care about the charity ...
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bham wrote:Let's eliminate these virtual markets from fools and we will eliminate the pressure on food prices!
... and let's ban these pseudo "bio-fuels" which, in addition to the fact that they only have a false marketing name, take food out of the mouths of the poorest to fill the tank of the richest cars
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Ben yes targol but we can say it, we do not listen ... Jean Ziegler has proposed a moratorium of 5 years on biofuels 1ere generation (escrofuels) ... Here we propose to already distinguish between bio and agroburants : https://www.econologie.com/agrocarburant ... -3575.html
Anyway seen as they go they will die of themselves ... well done!
Biodiesel and ethanol plants start losing money with current raw material tariffs ...
Anyway seen as they go they will die of themselves ... well done!
Biodiesel and ethanol plants start losing money with current raw material tariffs ...
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Christophe wrote:Biodiesel and ethanol plants start losing money with current raw material tariffs ...
Good news at last
This is the first one that I have heard on the subject since the victory of CDC Villeneuve sur Lot and its trucks trucks at the HVB
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Christophe wrote:Here we propose to already distinguish the bio of the agribusiness: https://www.econologie.com/agrocarburant ... -3575.html
Quiz of the day: how many of you have relayed this idea to your knowledge (between 2 humorous bullshit it does not hurt if?) ...
So here is...
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Targol wrote:Good news at last
This is the first one that I have heard on the subject since the victory of CDC Villeneuve sur Lot and its trucks trucks at the HVB
Well it was about the German factories and as in Germany the distinction between oil and diester is not obvious (since we find pure oil in the stations) I'm not sure that this is such good news .. .for the oily ...
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And if the earthlings shared better food, there might be for everyone
It is shameful for the force-fed people of this land to starve these poor Haitians and other hungry people of this land.
In developed countries (they say ----- ) it is true that the cell phone, the flat screen TV, the car are often bought BEFORE the food, but when we see all this amount of food in hyper markets, the great restaurants in which the big bosses of the IMF will eat all the days, we can admit that this overflow consumed by our rich countries without speaking about what goes in the garbage, would do good to all these humans of the poor countries.
DSK only with his annual salary (280000 $ to check, I noted qque part) could feed a whole country for a year, he is socialist I think?
What hypocrisy
It is shameful for the force-fed people of this land to starve these poor Haitians and other hungry people of this land.
In developed countries (they say ----- ) it is true that the cell phone, the flat screen TV, the car are often bought BEFORE the food, but when we see all this amount of food in hyper markets, the great restaurants in which the big bosses of the IMF will eat all the days, we can admit that this overflow consumed by our rich countries without speaking about what goes in the garbage, would do good to all these humans of the poor countries.
DSK only with his annual salary (280000 $ to check, I noted qque part) could feed a whole country for a year, he is socialist I think?
What hypocrisy
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