As I go on reading.... "The food price index of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) rose by a steep but manageable 8% in 2006, but then much more sharply - by 24% - in 2007, and 53% in the first three months of this year alone - an unprecedented rise...." a report by David Loyn @http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7431734.stm Encourages me to think upon it and find the relative/transitive and might be the actual & exact reasons of this sudden steep...
One of the obvious reason for this is the increase in demands against availability. Increase in demand from countries like India, China and others have risen sharply.One obvious reason is inability of internal food production to satisfy the increasing demands in addition to this the governments have started cutting down the import duties so that the imports could be increased... Is that a correct and thorough solution to these crises? I don't think it is... I think this adds to the cutting off of the supplies to poor countries who can't import and are dependent on the UN and other countries who supply them food. Ultimately making the crisis more severe... Though whole world shows its curiosity and positive concern towards this I doubt whether the severity of this crisis is going to get controlled or is going to be more and more tougher to handle...
In order to resolve the crisis, Identification of necessary actions should be the foremost agenda of the G8 meet as the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has called for urgent action to ensure food supplies to poor nations struggling with sharp price rises the key would be to identify the exact causes and try correcting/prioritizing them in order to reduce down the inflation. Identification of necessary action does not means that not falling short in supplying the food to poor nations as one of the statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that we will increase the production of food by 50% by yr 2030. But as per me this wont help unless we all(nations) take some firm initiative towards improving the agriculture and agricultural practices...
There is strong need of time to put agriculture and agricultural practices in first priority though it does not applies to the practices of increasing the production of corn for bio fuel it has hurt to its extreme to the environment(amazon destruction in Brazil ) as well as to the mankind as a whole...
This is time where in all developing as well developed nations are trying to to compete with each other on technology, defence and infrastructure front which again shows the thrust for becoming the supreme power... Leaving behind other and more important aspects like technologies to improve the food production... By 2030 the scenario will be much worse than it is today if we don't act.
World is in need of a Vision and Visionary leaders...
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