Global Food Crisis Risk Is Soaring [MAP]

TBI ^ | 10-10-2012 | Joshua Berlinger

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Global Food Crisis Risk Is Soaring [MAP]>

Joshua Berlinger
October 10,2012

The global risk analysis firm Maplecroft has released its food security index for 2013, along with a map that highlights which the food security of individual states.

Africa is clearly the most afflicted, with six of the seven states at "extreme risk." Afghanistan was the only nation outside of Africa at extreme risk. Only two countries lacked sufficient data to be analyzed.

Spiking food prices could have catastrophic consequences. "Forecasts for 2013 provide a worrying picture,” Maplecroft’s Head of Maps and Indices Helen Hodge added. “Although a food crisis has not emerged yet, there is potential for food related upheaval across the most vulnerable regions, including sub-Saharan Africa.”

The report added that food insecurity could also become yet another factor fueling the already tense relations and civil unrest in the Middle East.

At the current rate, Rabobank— a financial specialist in agro-commodities — estimates that prices of food staples could rise by as much as 15 percent by June 2013.

Here's the map:

[headsonpikes]

“I actually meant Papua New Guinea.”

Yeah, like why would head-hunters ever go hungry?

[Little Ray]

Actually, all that money made things worse. They shipped “free” food to Africa - and put the local producers out of business!

[Just another Joe]

Yeah, like why would head-hunters ever go hungry?

Soylent Green, baby.

[ex-Texan]

A word for the wise - do NOT eat any fish offered by cheap lunch and dinner buffets. King Zero has sold out to China and that sushi you love may be contamimated:

Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers ! !

Especially if the fish came from Asian waters and glows in the dark . . .

[MrB]

Obama: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK"

I fully believe that 0bama would be for "food fairness", taking away what we have because others don't have enough.

[bert]

Like the American poor, the high risk areas need to get to work to improve their condition

[metesky]

Not longpig again tonight, honey...

[American Constitutionalist]

I don’t eat Sushi.. never liked it.