Food Crisis

Already 840 million people around the world are chronically hungry, and now a convergence of factors – rising oil prices, escalating demand for food and grains, conversion of food to biofuels, and weather-related crop failures attributable in part to climate change – has sent global food prices spiraling upward. Food riots have erupted in Haiti, Mexico, Senegal and Burkina Faso, and the World Bank says the social unrest could spread to 33 countries.

Consider supporting the efforts of OxFam: pushing Congress to encourage more food aid and to allow for food to be purchased where it is needed, rather than being shipped halfway around the world, and finding local solutions such as Gambian village “cereal banks” or Pakistani food vouchers.

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