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| Daveb |
Posted - 12/04/2008 : 12:59:01
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7178876.stm
When the basics are not affordable there will be trouble.
Perhaps a blip or the tip of the iceberg?
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| Daveb |
Posted - 07/09/2008 : 11:34:05
The cows are getttingg abad press once more.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7600005.stm
In a world where there is already too much demand for food from crops this will only add to the shortages.
Recent results fron UN FOA conference.
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/foodclimate/HLCdocs/declaration-E.pdf
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| camelot |
Posted - 08/07/2008 : 00:17:33
Yes no surprise really except for the size of the price increase. Farmers here in the Midwestern USA are maxing corn production because of the high potential price of the fall crop. The problem is the fertilizers and transportation costs are tied to petroleum costs so they have all sky rocketed. Serpent chasing its tail in an upward spiral. Add in some speculation and the normal big business futures contract buying and you end up with low income people without food. The whole ethanol production scheme here in the USA has been described to me as mad from day one. It’s almost the Guns and Butter/ demand supply example from the old Economics texts…. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 07/07/2008 : 22:00:38
Not before time ... what on earth did they imagine bio-fuels were going to do? Increase food production? |
| Daveb |
Posted - 07/07/2008 : 21:56:04
Wakey Wakey!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7493482.stm
Now there is a surprise. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 20/04/2008 : 19:28:06
BBC Business editor- Robert Peston
played by Rory Bremner
although it is hard to know
these days. (Rory Bremner on Ch4 now is that good) |
| long time no see |
Posted - 20/04/2008 : 19:07:58
Yes China And India make most products now
so they need to feed the Workers.
Life In The City. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 20/04/2008 : 18:57:03
http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/41922/Neil-Hamilton
Ther may be some facts in this?
From the article.
"BIOFUELS are the eco-cranks’ latest obsession. These bio-fools say: “Don’t use corn to feed people, turn it into ethanol instead, to feed your 4x4 gas guzzler. Forget the starving millions. Save the planet.”
The US will convert 18 per cent of its maize into ethanol this year, rising to 45 per cent by 2015. The EU aims for six per cent within two years.
These trends, plus world population growth of 73 million a year and the surging economic growth in India and China, drove up global prices of maize, wheat and rice by more than 50 per cent last year. What does it matter if the poor can’t afford bread? As Marie Antoinette pointed out, they can always eat cake."
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| long time no see |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 12:34:02
Dithering Scottish Brown keeps saying we should help
these starving people
but the Dithering Fool is not doing anything. |
| Borninhove |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 12:15:44
All problems everywhere in the world are because of Evil Bush Blair Brown.
FACT
Food prices go up worldwide
Oil has reached $112 a barrel
A year ago it was $60 a barrel
How much does it cost to ship the wheat/rice/maize around the world?
Brown has nothing to do with it
FACT
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| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 09:23:47
bio fuel crops may indeed be one answer ... however I also think we need to start thinking about what and how we are consuming. Especially here in the 'developed' world. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 09:20:34
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see
Starving because
Pathetic Scottish Brown dithers
not a good PM.
Really? All down to Brown? |
| Daveb |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 09:20:21
Brown has little to do with this situation.
Growing bio-fuel crops instead of food may.
Tree huggers score another own goal! |
| long time no see |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 09:16:11
Starving because
Pathetic Scottish Brown dithers
not a good PM.
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| Daveb |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 08:59:51
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7344892.stm
Many could die of starvation and the riots before global warming gets us.
Time for strong armed forces to protect own countries resources?
Real global warming could be caused by nuclear war! |
| FUBAR |
Posted - 12/04/2008 : 14:20:22
That global warming better show up pretty fast then...... |
| Borninhove |
Posted - 12/04/2008 : 14:08:08
There have been bread riots in Cairo this week, and India has just announced it is stopping the export of rice, which is going to hit us here in the Gulf VERY hard - there are huge numbers of workers from the subcontinent here and if they can't get rice at affordable prices, there might be 'a bit of a kerfuffle'. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 12/04/2008 : 13:07:37
This has been on the cards for a long time. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 12/04/2008 : 13:04:24
Yes some areas now are no longer doing Exports
so many people in China to feed
they come first, of course.
Life In The City. |
