Assessing the global food crisis

“A silent tsunami which knows no borders sweeping the world”.

That is how the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) summed up the global food shortages.



It is certainly a storm that has hit with little warning and has plunged an extra 100 million people into poverty.

The crisis has triggered riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt and is deemed a dangerous threat to stability.

It is not so much famine that is the worry, it is widespread misery and malnutrition.

The WFP’s biggest concern is for the people living on 50 cents a day who have nothing to fall back on.

BBC