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The global food crisis [1]

Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty. But unlike previous shocks driven by short-term food shortages, this price spike came in a year when the world's farmers reaped a record grain crop. This time, the high prices were a symptom of a larger problem tugging at the strands of our worldwide food web, one that's not going away anytime soon. Simply put: For most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing. After years of drawing down stockpiles, in 2007 the world saw global carryover stocks fall to 61 days of global consumption, the second lowest on record.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2009
Joel K. Bourne Jr [2]
National Geographic [3]
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Agriculture [4], Green Revolution [5], Agricultural Research [6], Bio Fuel Crops [7], Animal Feed [8], Food Policy [9], Food Prices [10], Cancer [11], Climate Change [12], Consumption Patterns [13], Pesticide Use [14], Punjab Blood Case [15], Imports [16], Malawi [17], China [18], India [19], Punjab [20], Global [21], Food Security [22]

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