Perfect Storm - Food Crisis Grips Globe
April 21, 2008
Hunger smashed in the front gate of Haitis presidential palace. Hunger poured on to the streets, burning tyres and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the countrys prime minister packing.
Haitis hunger, that has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, rising by as much as 45% since the end of 2006 and turning staples such as beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
Saint Louis Meriskas children ate two spoonfuls of rice apiece as their only meal and then went without any food the following day. His eyes downcast, his own stomach empty, the unemployed father said: “They look at me and say Papa, Im hungry, and I have to look away. Its humiliating and it makes you angry.”
That anger is palpable across the globe. The food crisis is not only being felt among the poor but is also eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments.
In Cairo, Egypt, the military is being put to work baking bread as rising food prices threaten to become the spark that ignites wider anger at a repressive government. In Burkina Faso and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, food riots are breaking out as never before. In reasonably prosperous Malaysia, the ruling coalition was nearly ousted by voters who cited food and fuel price increases as their main concerns.
“Its the worst crisis of its kind in more than 30 years,” said Jeffrey D Sachs, the economist and special adviser to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. “Its a big deal and its obviously threatening a lot of governments. There are a number of governments on the ropes, and I think theres more political fallout to come.”
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Here in the US we are struggling with the rise in food prices as well. I am the mother/wife in a low income family of five. We have to cut back on all the “extras” in order to put food on our table.