What Europe can do to alleviate the global food crisis

Daily Star (Lebanon) by Michael Barnier | Nov. 29, 2008 (Comment)

The world has been shaken by unprecedented spikes in food prices, by hunger riots, and by social tensions that demonstrate that food supplies have returned as a source of insecurity - to which global warming and declining natural resources are adding unprecedented urgency. By 2050, it is estimated that there will be 9 billion people on earth, so the need for food may double - primarily among urban populations in the world's poorest countries.

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Author Michel Marnier is France's minister of agriculture and fisheries, past foreign minister and EU commissioner in charge of regional policy and reform of European institutions. His is a global perspective focusing on food security for all, based on local agriculture. An informed and essential look at world economics and the politics of food.

Food and water have become commodities bought and sold by the highest bidders, without regard to the basic human rights of the poor. Global food supplies have become a part of the global economy, and like the financial infrastructure, are perilously near collapse. To avoid catastrophic collapse common in population biology when demand for resources far exceeds available supply, we must act now to encourage and empower local food autonomy.

Countries and organizations are already mobilizing. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization argues that rising food prices could lead to increasing ... More »

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