World Bank Warning On The Impact Of Rising Food Prices

World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns of the threat posed by rising food prices world-wide.

Zoellick he stressed that food prices would be at the top of the agenda, and that the international community must make agriculture a priority.

Brandishing a sack of rice to make his point, World Bank president Robert Zoellick told reporters in Washington that rice prices have jumped 75% globally...and that's in the last two months.

In Bangladesh, a 2 kilogram bag of rice now costs half of a family's daily income. The price of rice is likely to rise again.

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[blackdovesmusic]

Countries spend up to 50% total income paying interest to the World Bank/IMF . They devote most of their money to pay off debts that can never be paid off keeping these countries in poverty forever. The World Bank wants to appear humanitarian by lending even more money to be paid off driving these countries further into poverty. The economy is based on constant growth which is impossible in a finite world as we begin to see the effects. Until you change the way money works you change nothing.

[BlueStateChronicle]

As a biologist, I can assure you that humanity is headed for disaster. The earth cannot support 7 billion people without cheap oil, and water, and both of those commodities are dwindling fast. Wars, famine, and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure are coming, people. You can take it to the bank.

[GABEUDEU]

If the western counrties want to change these fact it could be easy, I recomand to read the several reports of Jean Ziegler or Amaratya Sen...

[iammontemonte]

Imagine now the price of oil rising 100 % more. How could this be you ask? Well, if the cabal of con-artist puppeting president Bush and Congress in the USA gets its way, they with help of the USA media, will trick gullible Americans into launching a lies based war, this time against Iran. Add to this the so called "Enron Loophole" effect on the price of oil, and you have a formula for disaster.

[RLF777]

We Desperatly Need Food Donations at Redding Loaves and Fishes of Northern California, Numbers in Need Way Up, Donations Way Down...