Devinder Sharma "Silent Tsunami of Hunger" in Global Food Crisis. Democracy Now 10/14/09

As US and Other Wealthy Nations Slash Aid, UN Warns of "Silent Tsunami of Hunger" in Global Food Crisis
The UN World Food Program is calling the current global food crisis a silent tsunami of hunger. This week the WFP warned that more than 40 million people will have their food rations reduced or eliminated because of the drastic aid cuts. We speak with award-winning Indian journalist, writer and activist Devinder Sharma.

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[shetgold]

@uthamanarayanan if we really want to save other agriculturist from suicide, we must stop consuming the Shoping mall food, those are GM foods, and buy the food from local farmars and from local market. i have already stoped or minimized, are you?

[neerajlogix]

Thanks for the such good info, i also want to know abot how GATT kills our farmers.

[vidaripollen]

thankyou for speaking for the hungry.agri policy is decided by people who never went hungry or grew a vegetable.

[vidaripollen]

thankyou for speaking for the hungry.

[tanaygurja]

@shetgold corporations can be involved with farming alongwith the unorganised sector since they can bring more productivity, efficiency into the primitive mode of farming prevalent in India. but the govt. has to have a strict control over their functioning so as not to allow market forces to dictate food prices and corporations benefiting illegally from unethical hoarding etc.

[uthamanarayanan]

Sad to note the fact last 15 years 2,00,000 agriculturists committed suicide in India...... sad indeed.