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Seven Questions: The Silent Tsunami
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 25, 2008 09:08am |
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| News Date | Friday, April 25, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted April 2008
You’ve heard the frightening statistics, seen the riots, and watched the food lines grow across the world. Have we entered some kind of permanent Malthusian trap? Or is there a way out of the global food crisis? Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, says the situation is dire, but eminently solvable.
Foreign Policy: It seems like attention to the global food crisis hadn’t really reached critical mass until the past few weeks and months. Why is that?
Josette Sheeran: The World Food Program is like the canary in the coal mine. Because we’re dealing with food supply for the world’s most vulnerable, we felt it earlier on. Some institutions, like the International Food Policy Research Institute, have been warning that the dynamics of world food supply were getting very precarious. But I don’t think it was until June, when prices went into an aggressive pattern of increase, that it started to get the world’s attention. And food riots that have broken out in 34 countries have certainly helped raise political awareness. Agriculture has not been a high priority for the top political leadership of the world, and these events are ensuring that leaders give agriculture the attention that it needs. But it’s taken some fairly dramatic events to do so. |
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