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New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilisations
2013-02-07 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. This new era is one of rising food prices and spreading hunger. On the demand side of the food equation, population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of food into fuel for cars...
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