
The widespread rise in food prices was attributed to various causes, such as the recent disasters in Asia, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods throughout the World, predictably caused by climate change, and that has generated increases in the price of rice, one most of the food consumed in the world. The UN agencies specializing in food, such as FAO, meet these days in Berne, Switzerland, to take steps to try to correct this dangerous rise in prices.
But the most important cause of this rise, according to the UN, arguing that the United States and Europe have made to raise prices to devote large shares of their crops of corn to produce biofuel. Thus, to reduce climate change is doomed to millions of hungry people in the third world. Sad paradox.
What is most unfair is that the least polluting, less developed, and therefore, the least responsible for climate change said, are those who have to pay the consequences of the activity of most polluting countries such as USA. Above all thinking that are most sensitive to this price rise, as the spectre of famine looms over them. We are talking, according to the organizers of that meeting, more than 100 million people affected in those developing countries, as they euphemistically call to the poorest countries.
The aid will not be sufficient to remedy this situation of rising prices, which UN agencies have described as? Extremely serious?, Which is already causing unrest and demonstrations in at least 37 countries. UNICEF has also voiced its concern, because every year 3.5 million children die from malnutrition, a situation that could worsen significantly by this price rise. Inconceivable that something like this happen in our world? Civilized? and technologically advanced.
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