The Food Price Crisis
This video of Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leone's foreign minister from Avaaz.org, eloquently looks at the problems rising food prices are causing around the world.
Websites like Global Voices are doing an excellent job of reporting the effect the rise in prices is having around the globe. From riots in Somalia and Egypt, to people resorting to eating mud in Haiti.
Here in the UK, food prices are rising and we know it's concerning many of you.
We're trying to harness the web in the reporting of food prices. If you've a personal experience, or have found some interesting commentary online, please leave a note in comments.
I've put together a small aggregation of relevant content on this Netvibes page. If you are a blogger with something to say on the issue, tag your post or youtube video foodprices08 and it will appear there too. It will also pick up Twitter posts with foodprices08 in the text.
Below is a map of some of the coverage from Global Voices, popular blogs and from the media. If there are elements you think I should add to the map (which is based on Yahoo Pipes) please let me know. (It's a little cranky as an embed so you may want the direct link here)
UPDATE: We featured a montage of blogger created pieces on the food crisis on the podcast. Thanks to: Georgia Popplewell and Janine Mendes-Franco, Last of Iraqis, Eduardo Avila, and thanks also to Mong Palatino, Hanako Tokita and Scott Bonnell for helping with the broadcast.
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In my opinion food crisis is mainly due to speedy urbanized growth of developing countries (mainly India and china who were the major suppliers of food grains to the world need) resulting conversion of agricultural land to urban cities to accommodate growing population and lack of interest in farming due to non profit, labour problems and more... neglecting rural sectors by governments has not caused panic of food shortage. link to my article: http://www.sadashivan.com/distressingfacts/id7.html
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