”World leaders must snap out of their lazy complacency and realize the time of cheap food has long gone,” said Oxfam’s Colin Roche in a statement. He argues, among other things, that the U.S. and E.U. should scrap their biofuels programs that divert food for fuel and should also start preparing more forcefully for climate change, which is expected to increase the frequency of drought and could provoke similar food price spikes in the years ahead."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/09/could-the-u-s-drought-trigger-another-global-food-crisis/
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