The second time in the last three years living in a global food crisis. Wheat, maize, sugar and food price increases in oil prices to a record level in January worldwide production.
These increases not too much influence on inflation in the U.S. but also in other parts of the world live in this situation and the bulk of the revenue for basic food needs of poor people spend on the brutal impact.
The results of the food crisis is about the economy. In particular, the repressive regimes in the Middle East rebellion against corruption, why now emerged as a major cause of occurrence. Rising food prices have triggered major causes of this rebellion is a fact beyond any doubt.
So what's behind the rise in food prices have this experience? American right-wing politicians (and Chinese), who threw Federal Reserve (Fed) loose monetary policy, some of the bank chief Ben Bernanke's traces of blood on your hands, "also say. French President Nicolas Sarkozy blamed by throwing speculators other hand, makes these people "bullying and soygunculukla" what they do.
JUST STARTING
However, the available evidence suggests is threatening the existence of a longer history. More than one reason for the rise in food prices has no effect, although most of the bad weather is claiming agricultural production. And, more importantly, because the gas salımımlarından beginning of climate change, as we continue to live in food prices did not rise.
Food prices rise at the same time, the last time a question of increasing demand of goods. In developing countries, rapid growth of aluminum, zinc, increased demand for raw materials since the beginning of 2009 ...
Agricultural zones of decreasing
Meat consumption in developed economies such as China to increase the growth rate of more space for grazing animals bring a real separation. In the same way, in particular for the production of commodities such as cotton, so that more land in areas reserved for agriculture section is another fact. Bio-fuel in the production of ethanol from corn for the production of the waiver of another fact. This is bad energy policy and economic growth and a role in the rise in food prices.
Despite all this the rise in food prices last summer, the weather was up to ağırlaşıncaya lags behind the rise in other commodity products ...
WHAT WAS THE AIR?
Then you should ask these extreme changes in climatic conditions and what's behind it?
This situation to a point that a natural event caused by the weather by the arrival of La Nina is colder than normal stream. A view of the global food crisis in La Nina'dan resources related to historical situations in a cruise. The same situation was seen in 2007-2008 in the crisis.
This is not the whole story. It poured a dark look too much deceived Winter, 2010, in the second half of the cooling effect of La Nina and the period of solar activity, but at least 2005 and went on a record in terms of temperature. Record temperatures not only in Russia, seen with an area of one fifth of the world's population in 19 countries were.
In the two floods and famine, global warming has emerged as a natural consequence. The dryness can cause more water temperatures that are in the oceans and on the other side rise to evaporate excessive rain, flooding ...
We will see worse
We have evidence for global warming and climate change in a world where economic and political interference in the first stage of the showing that we are human. Reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases continue as long as başarısızlığımız, we will inevitably worse with more.
* This article in The New York Times, droughts, floods and food ", published in the news under the title together.
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