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Global Food Crisis Catches Up With Russia
Net News Publisher | 6 hours ago by Terry
Food prices will be the biggest single problem facing newly minted Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Over the last six months, hardly a single speech by Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, or other leading Russian political figures has failed to include menti read more
This Livestock ETF Is Set to Rise on Corn Stocks’ Historic Drop
Contrarian Profits | 19 hours ago by Contrarian Profits
Corn stocks are expected to plunge to a 13-year low, according to the US Department of Agriculture, setting up a great play in this little-known livestock ETF. MarketWatch reports that corn stocks are set to suffer because US farmers are cutting back read more
News: Who profits from the global food crisis?
The Road To The Horizon | May 15th 2008 by Peter Casier
The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world's poor – who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food – into hunger and destitution.While the poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer: read more
Some News Highlights
Fund my Mutual Fund | May 15th 2008 by TraderMark
Here is what I'm reading that you may or may not find interesting...Fortune believes the next President could obliterate the auto industry as we know it with new fuel standards... coming from Michigan all I can say is ... the hits keep coming. "He o read more
The truth about the rising food prices
YounGistan view of India, Bharat and Hindustan | May 15th 2008
Recently Mr. Bush, yes the same man who invaded Iraq in search of mass destruction weapons, popularly known to the world by DubyaMan blamed India for rising prices of food items in the world. Well some one said that “a picture is worth a thousa read more
US Senate Panel Considers Response to Global Food Crisis
Net News Publisher | May 14th 2008 by Terry
A U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday looked at the factors behind the global food crisis and how the United States and the international community should respond. VOA’s Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill. In testimony to the Senate Foreign Rela read more
Chimpy and Lecondel, WRONG As Always
Reconstitution | May 14th 2008
What kind of inbreeding causes such stupidity? What kind of environmental contamination? I know Babs smoked heavily while she was pregnant with the moronic monkey, but surely she must have been slugging back a fifth of Jack or two a day as well. Leco read more
Entrepreneurs See Opportunity in Food Crisis
South Asia Investor Review | May 13th 2008 by Riaz Haq
Richard Spinks, a 41-year-old British entrepreneur, is going door-to-door, leasing small plots of land from hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in western Ukraine. His company, Landkom International PLC, has planted wheat, barley and rapeseed (aka read more
Beating Back Would Bite Back PPP
The Pakistani Spectator | May 13th 2008 by The Pakistani Spectator
The compromise of Pakistan People’s Party with the President Musharraf won’t do any good to it, neither in the government nor in the party cadres, and it’s extremely detrimental for them in the future. They have unnecessarily made read more
How Do You Say ‘We Surrender’ in Mandarin?
Contrarian Profits | May 12th 2008 by Contrarian Profits
China: bigger, faster, stronger…the world's up-and-comer does have some trouble on the way. More and more people competing for the world's resources. The Chinese work their way up the ladder, as Americans work their way down...and more! An old frie read more
The Worsening Crisis
Mystified Justice | May 12th 2008 by sana
While the year 2007 brought with it a constant wave of uncertainties it is about time for an analytical approach rather than constant criticism . Much has been promised by the so called “return to democracy” phase. However much of high hopes read more
Quick One: Almost Getting It On Biofuels
Another Point of View | May 10th 2008 by Pierre H. Vachon
I admit that this post deals with a very local matter (the town where I live), but this addresses nonetheless the bigger issue of biofuels.From the CBC (emphasis added):Sherbrooke says no to plant biofuels on ethical groundsThe city of Sherbrooke ha read more
The Morality of the Stomach
Another Point of View | May 10th 2008 by Pierre H. Vachon
Food Riots are Coming to the U.S.www.counterpunch.orgBy BINOY KAMPMARK "I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No this is not a drill." --Brett Arends read more
What’s the Plan?
The Pakistani Spectator | May 10th 2008 by The Pakistani Spectator
Nation knows that the new government hasn’t got the lamp of Aladdin to solve the problems in one day, but at least they should show some progress and they should rise above the rhetoric and the blame game to the previous government. It’s read more
Farms Beckon Investors to South Asia
South Asia Investor Review | May 9th 2008 by Riaz Haq
While the term "energy security" has been in vogue for many years, the term "food security" seems to be competing with it for an equal or higher ranking on the world agenda. Food Security is particularly high on the list for countries such as China w read more
UNICEF briefs Congress on food crisis
UNICEF Fieldnotes | May 9th 2008
Yesterday a UNICEF representative brought UNICEF's concerns about the impact of the global food crisis on children to the attention of Members of Congress and Congressional staff at a packed hearing room on Capitol Hill. The briefing, chaired by Rep read more
Food Monopoly: A Cornucopia of Conspiracy
Max Gladwell | May 9th 2008 by Max Gladwell
The global food crisis runs deeper than a simple supply issue. Especially in the United States, it is a major health concern. Following is an excerpt from an AllergyKids.com article. We encourage you to read it in full. Though we’re not entirel read more
Striking Against Rising Food and Oil Prices
Nicaraguan Report | May 9th 2008 by Alfredo Rivas
As Daniel Ortega played host to 14 Latin American and Caribbean heads of state and government convened under the umbrella of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), Nicaragua is paralyzed with the ominous smell of burning tires and barric read more
Friday Stories Part I
Fund my Mutual Fund | May 9th 2008 by TraderMark
Most of these can be categorized under "it doesn't matter, until it does" and "go where the real money in the world is" (it's not here)I'm on record last year saying 2008 will be the worst auto sales year in 2 decades... even Toyota is not immune (wh read more
Prix des produits agricoles: les vraies causes | Agricultural pri…
De Nottingham | From Nottingham | May 8th 2008
Il y a quelques semaines, le documentariste Hugo Latulippe est allé à l'émission Tout le monde en parle présenter sa nouvelle série de documentaires. Pendant l'entrevue, il a abordé la question de la crise alimentaire actuelle. Il n'a pas manqu read more
Oh… They’re Running Out of Food
Little Miss Brightside | May 8th 2008 by Little Miss Brightside
colbert report, daily show, food crisis, food hoarding, food riots, food shortage, jon stewart, rice, united states, videoBookmark to: read more
IMF also backing free market solutions.
Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty | May 8th 2008 by Devil's Advocate
(Shorack, guest blogger from Belgium) John Lipsky, one of the heads of the IMF made some statements today concerning inflation and more specific, the price increase of food. He criticized governments who put in place protectionist measures since th read more
More news on the food crisis
UNICEF Fieldnotes | May 8th 2008
© UNICEF/HQ99-0619/Giacomo Pirozzi As we work to get a sense of the full extent of damage from the cyclone in Myanmar, we're also continuing to stay on top of news connected to the food crisis. And the news in that department is not good. read more
12th May + 2 Days
The Pakistani Spectator | May 8th 2008 by The Pakistani Spectator
Both PML-N and PPP knows that giving a new deadline date would be detrimental for their political prestige in the country, so they are talking about 12th May and two more days as a grace period for the final decision regarding the reinstatement of th read more
Let's get into Bigfood
What You Must Read | May 8th 2008 by andrew
This post is a tribute to Paul Collier and Chris Blattman -both brilliant development economists.Following is a post of Blattman's who himself includes an excerpt of Collier's work:Paul Collier on the food crisisBrad Delong directs us to this Financi read more
The food crisis: should we stop eating meat?
Learn Sigma | May 8th 2008 by robert thompson
photo credit: Jesse Gardner They’ve been noting in Egypt. And Mexico. And Indonesia. In Bangladesh 20,000 workers took to the streets of the capital, Dhaka, last week. In Haiti, where famine has reduced many to eating biscuits made from mud, a read more
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