Could When Will Food Riots Break Out Across the U.S.?
Accelerated land degradation threatens food security of a quarter of the world’s population: FAO
Main entry: Land degradation threatens 1.5 billion people
An Egyptian rice farmer shows his drought damaged rice crop and cracks in the rice terrace soil caused by more than 30 days of no rain in a village near Balqis, northeast of Cairo June 14, 2008. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri. Image may be subject to copyright. See MSRB Fair Use Notice!
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Background Information:
- Emerging Food Crisis
- Food Riots Grip Egypt, Haiti, El Salvador
- World Poverty Index
- Japan: The land of rising . . . err . . . Prices!
- High food prices seen leading to strikes, protests in Asia
- Now, the world’s problem is food: Here come shortages, rising prices and riots
- Corn for Food, NOT for Fuel
- Riots across Egypt amid rising food prices
- Bangladesh police clash with garment workers
- Kenya police disperse food protesters
- Soaring living costs cloud U.N. climate talks
- Deep climate cuts urged; food price a wake-up call
- USDA head downplays calls to cut biofuel mandate
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