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Food Failures and Futures

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  • Laurrie Garrett

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The soaring prices of food—especially rice, wheat, and corn—have international organizations and rich-country governments scrambling for immediate solutions, in hopes of staving off mass starvation. The quick solutions that are being proposed across the world will only prevent deaths and malnutrition for the few in the immediate months ahead. The crisis that is unfolding is a fundamental, structural change in the world food supply and agricultural production, clearly linked to rising energy costs, climate shifts, and the emerging Asian middle class. Unless the food crisis is addressed at that level, starvation and malnutrition will become enduring features of the global landscape, sparking instability and anxiety for decades to come. [A Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper]

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  • Laurrie Garrett, 2008. "Food Failures and Futures," Working Papers id:1496, eSocialSciences.
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