The Future is Equal

Archives for August 15, 2012

Media Advisory: Food crises doomed to repeat until leaders find courage to fix problems

Futures prices for food staples rise by 50% as droughts hit harvests. The world is battling a record number of food-related emergencies and facing US$4.1bn funding shortfall. Millions of the world’s poorest people will face devastation from today’s rocketing food prices because the global food system is fatally flawed and policy-makers can’t find the courage to fix it. Policy-makers have taken cheap food for granted for nearly 30 years. Those days are gone.


West Africa food crisis threatens over 18 million people

Fatimata Sawadogo has just won gold, but there’ll be no ceremony, no podium and no medals. Instead, the gold she’s worked for days to find, digging in the bare soil near her village in Burkina Faso, will buy a little bit of food for Fatimata and her children. The world might not be watching, but in a time of extreme hunger, finding this gold is still a victory.

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