de l’avenir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tWSWS.org<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWorldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the changes represent an unforeseen and unprecedented shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe FAO’s food price index rose by 40 percent this year, on top of the already high 9 percent increase the year before, and the poorest countries spent 25 percent more this year on imported food. The prices for staple crops, including wheat, rice, corn and soybeans, all rose drastically in 2007, pushing up prices for grain-fed meat, eggs and dairy products and spurring inflation throughout the consumer food market.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbDriving these increases are a complex range of developments, including rapid urbanization of populations and growing demand for food stuffs in key developing countries such as China and India, speculation in the commodities markets, increased diversion of feedstock crops into the production of biofuels, and extreme weather conditions and other natural disasters associated with climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbThe world reserves of cereals are dwindling. In the past year, wheat stores declined 11 percent. The FAO notes that this is the lowest level since the UN began keeping records in 1980, while the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that world wheat stocks may have fallen to 47-year lows. By FAO figures, the falloff in wheat stores equals about 12 weeks worth of global consumption.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe USDA has cautioned that wheat exporters in the US have already sold more than 90 percent of what the department had expected to be exported during the fiscal year ending June 2008. This has dire consequences for the world’s poor, whose diets consist largely of cereal grains imported from the United States and other major producers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMore than 850 million people around the world suffer from chronic hunger and other associated miseries of extreme poverty. According to the FAO, 37 countries20 in Africa, 9 in Asia, 6 in Latin America, and 2 in Eastern Europecurrently face exceptional shortfalls in food production and supplies.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\n<\/p>\n\tMis en ligne le 22 d\u00e9cembre 2007 \u00e0 14H01<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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