Global Food Crisis

In Egypt people have died of exhaustion queuing for food, in Indonesia thousands demonstrate and in Pakistan troops are deployed to guard trucks carrying food.

Here is a news clip of recent riots in Haiti. Here is the World Bank's solution

Much of this can be put down to farmers choosing to produce fuel rather than food. There is more here:

Crop switch worsens global food price crisis Environment The Guardian

On the postive side, Afghan Opium producers are switiching production over ot growing food. see, every cloud . . . Article is here