By Martin Sieff
Why are 2.5 billion people -- more than 40 percent of the human race -- in imminent danger of famine? The threat is real, but its solutions aren‘t what the United Nations, the Green Lobby, or the Carbon Threat/Greenhouse Gases lunatics want you to believe.
A billion people live on less than $1 a day. Another 1.5 billion people live on $1 to $1.5 a day. For them, any substantial rise in the price of staple grains like rice or wheat is potentially fatal. Yet since January, according to The Economist magazine, global rice prices have soared 142 percent. Last year, global wheat prices rose 77 percent. Why?
The first crucial point to remember is that global harvests have been excellent for the past two years, especially in the leading food producing nations. The United States and the European Union have experienced relatively small declines in grains output and in recent years, Australia somewhat more. But these issues should not have had anything like this impact. Indeed, the Food and Agriculture Organization projects the 27-nation European Union’s wheat harvest will be 13 percent greater this year than last. U.S. winter and spring what planters are also substantially up, The Economist reports.
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