After 20 years, we will be hungry!
]01 June 2011 Radikal
Help organization Oxfam warned: food prices will increase very if an emergency global food system reform is not done!]
[Oxfam activists have revived the leaders in the G-8 peak last week, member countries 'sefahat': left to right; UK Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, Germany Prime Minister Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
According to estimates in the report published by the administration, prices of the main grains in 2030 will increase 120 to 180 percent. In the report, the half of this increase will be caused by global warming. Oxfam also called the world leaders to better organize rules in food markets and invest in a global climate fund.
The General Director of the Organization Barbara Stocking, says “Food system to deal with increasingly growing problems such as change, increased food prices, agricultural land, water and energy shortage.”
Before the peak in December
] attention to four zones in the study of the Oxfam. According to the report, there is no food safety of 850 thousand people in Guatemala, which has to import the large part of the food due to investing in small land owners. A person in India has to spend two layers of income compared to the UK. Due to poor weather conditions in Azerbaijan, wheat production is 33 percent dropped. This means you have to import wheat from Russia and Kazakhstan. 8 million people in East Africa suffer from chronic food shortage due to drought. [
Oxfam calls to bring new rules to the management of food markets to world leaders in its report. According to the organization, it is necessary to establish a global climate fund before the United Nations Climate Conference to be held in South Africa. Click here to reach the details of
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