Is the rioting in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen really a portender of global food shortages and rising food prices which are crushing those countries' urban populations. Global Macro Monitor | Monitoring the Global Economy. Why are global food prices rising, and what can we do locally to help. Johann Hari: How Goldman gambled on starvation - Johann Hari, Commentators. By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world – Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more – have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world.
It starts with an apparent mystery. At the end of 2006, food prices across the world started to rise, suddenly and stratospherically. Earlier this year I was in Ethiopia, one of the worst-hit countries, and people there remember the food crisis as if they had been struck by a tsunami. Join Independent Minds For exclusive articles, events and an advertising-free read for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Get the best of The Independent With an Independent Minds subscription for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month. A special report on feeding the world: The 9 billion-people question.
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