Global Food Crisis

Soaring prices have been blamed on lower agricultural production, weather shocks, more meat consumption, and shifts to biofuel crops. * Wheat prices are up 120% * Rice prices are up 75% * Poor families spend up to 80% of their budget on food.

High food prices are a matter of daily struggle for more than 2 billion people. High prices threaten to increase malnutrition, already an underlying cause of death in over 3.5 million children a year. * An estimated 100 million people have fallen into poverty in the last 2 years * Prices are expected to stay high through 2015

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• world
• bank
• food
• crisis
• prices
• poverty

[LMB222]

"The money I earn is not enough to feed my whole family" - then why did you bring 8 children to this world?

[datzfast]

i highjly reccomend these unwed mothers try growing all of their food insted of buying it. seriously. im not kidding. this isnt a joke. if they relay on cheap food they just might die when the price goes up.

[datzfast]

un wed women should never have a child. some do. i respect the fact they didnt kill their unborn child.

[02emma2]

Anyone who watched this please do the 40 hour famine. The seriousness of the world food crisis is amazing. Please do something!

[02emma2]

@SurferRosa79 very true. but its not their fault!

[SurferRosa79]

maybe the problem doesn't lie so much with food prices but with all these poor women having children they know in advance they won't be able to feed properly...