Food will be the expensive shopping item into 2030

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=362583

Food prices are expected to remain high, even with record production in 2008.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has reported the number of hungry people will increase by many more millions.

The organisation has said agricultural production would have to increase 50 per cent by 2030 in order to feed growing demand.

While the FAO's latest figures put 2008 world cereal production at record output levels, this only represents a 3.8 per cent increase over 2007.

While the price of food has remained stable since February, it was 53 per cent higher for the first four months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007.
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53% HIGHER in four months someone is gouging someone

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. I'm looking forward to delicious Soylent Green.

Mmmm, Soylent Green.. Homer Simpson drool effect...

[soothsayer]

2. get rid of the IMF, the World Bank, and evil Monsanto, and we'll have food once more

Honestly, how we put up with this stuff is beyond me.

We forced Iraqis to only plant expensive, non-renewable monsanto seeds, for instance. And here's a good example of how the IMF bullies countries and forces them into ruin:

World Bank `Destroyed Basic Grains' in Honduras (Update2)

By Alison Fitzgerald, Jason Gale and Helen Murphy

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Fidencio Alvarez abandoned his bean and corn farm in southern Honduras because of the rising cost of seeds, fuel and food. After months of one meal a day, he hiked with his wife and six children to find work in the city.

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Honduran farmers like Alvarez can't compete in a global marketplace where the costs of fuel and fertilizer soared and rice prices doubled in the past year. The former breadbasket of Central America now imports 83 percent of the rice it consumes -- a dependency triggered almost two decades ago when it adopted free-market policies pushed by the World Bank and other lenders.

The country was $3.6 billion in debt in 1990. In return for loans from the World Bank, Honduras became one of dozens of developing nations that abandoned policies designed to protect farmers and citizens from volatile food prices. The U.S. House Financial Services Committee in Washington today explored the causes of the global food crisis and possible solutions.

The committee examined whether policies advocated by the bank and the International Monetary Fund contributed to the situation. Governments from Ghana to the Philippines were pressured to cut protective tariffs and farm supports and to grow more high-value crops for export, reports by the Washington-based World Bank show.

more http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=home&sid=aGxiawAqP0.w

[Bandit]

3. Anything made of plastic or wrapped in plastic will aslo go through the roof.

Plastic mostly is made from petroleum and we see what is happening there. Food can be grown fairly easily even indoors through hydroponics although electricy costs are bound to soar as well.