The Food Crisis Is Not Only In Haiti Worldwide

From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions.

Freak weather is a factor.

But so are dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and India.

The world's poorest nations still harbor the greatest hunger risk. Clashes over bread in Egypt killed at least two people last week, and similar food riots broke out in Burkina Faso and Cameroon this month.

But food protests now crop up even in Italy.

And while the price of spaghetti has doubled in Haiti, the cost of miso is packing a hit in Japan.

"It's not likely that prices will go back to as low as we're used to," said Abdolreza Abbassian, economist and secretary of the Intergovernmental Group for Grains for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

"Currently if you're in Haiti, unless the government is subsidizing consumers, consumers have no choice but to cut consumption.

It's a very brutal scenario, but that's what it is."

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Subject		Author	Date
Haiti In Crisis		Topic	4/9
	We Must Quickly React....	Fatno	4/10
	Know Were We Come From	Sandweene	4/10
	Haiti In Crisis	Madeline Toro	4/10
	Prevai Is Responsible	Nadia Jerome	4/10
	The Food Crisis Is Not Only In Haiti Worldwide	Bambou Nazaire	4/10
	We're Back To Square One In Haiti	Jose Seraphin	4/10
	Are There Other Hands Behind This Manifestation?	Brutus Paul	4/10
	Haiti Is Not Alone With This Problem Of Food	Jean Resnik	4/10
	Haiti Is Once Again Erupting In Angry Violence	Paula	4/10