Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il "motore alimentare" della crisi

http://www.worldbank.org/foodcrisis/food_price_watch_report_feb2011.html
Global food prices continue to rise, though not uniformly for all 
grains. The World Bank’s food price index rose by 15% between October 
2010 and January 2011, is 29% above its level a year earlier, and only 
3% below its June 2008 peak (figure 1). A breakdown of the index shows 
that the grain price index remains 16% below its peak mainly due to 
relatively stable rice prices, which are significantly lower than in 
2008. The increase over the last quarter is driven largely by increases 
in the price of sugar (20%), fats and oils (22%), wheat (20%), and maize 
(12%).
Among grains, global wheat prices have increased the most in recent 
months. A confluence of weather shocks to various large producing 
countries, followed in some cases by export restrictions, curtailed 
supply and caused wheat prices to more than double between the lows of 
June 2010 and January 2011 (figure 2). Currently two factors are keeping 
wheat prices high. On the supply side, there is uncertainty about the 
size and the quality of wheat exports from Australia—where crops were 
damaged by excessive rains and floods—as well as concerns about China’s 
winter wheat crop. Demand drivers center around the possibility of large 
wheat importing countries, particularly in the Middle East and North 
Africa, coming to the market with large orders. These are related to 
assuring the public that adequate domestic food stocks exist during 
uncertain political times in some countries. Another reason is that 
countries like Saudi Arabia are progressively reducing domestic 
production of wheat to conserve valuable water resources and relying 
more on imports.
Higher global wheat prices have fed into sharp increases in domestic 
wheat prices in many countries. The transmission rate of global wheat 
price increases to the domestic price of wheat-related products has been 
high in many countries. For instance, between June 2010 and December 
2010, the price of wheat increased by large amounts in Kyrgyzstan (54%), 
Bangladesh (45%), Tajikistan (37%), Mongolia (33%), Sri Lanka (31%), 
Azerbaijan (24%), Afghanistan (19%), Sudan (16%), and Pakistan (16%). 
Several of these countries have a large share of calories consumed from 
wheat based products, particularly for the poor.
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Namib
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http://www.worldbank.org/foodcrisis/food_price_watch_report_feb2011.html
Quante storie...l'agricoltura bio ci salverà, no?
In fondo l'agricoltura chimica...gli Ogm sono solo strumenti del capitalismo
sfruttatore che accentra i terreni fertili invece di lasciarli al contadino 
africano
con i figli che tirano l'aratro.
Il futuro poi è nei biocarburanti...ovviamente non derivati dal grano e 
piante
da prodotto commestibile?
Non bastano? Che problema c'è...non ci pianti grano e pianti quelle, che
diventa biocarburante e biomassa (quella roba con cui la Merkel vuole
in parte sostituire il nucleare nel famoso 2050) così non utilizzi il grano 
e
stai con la coscienza (verde) a posto.
Dopo comunismo e nazismo, solo l'ecologismo ha fatto più morti
Ciao!
 

 Quante storie...l'agricoltura bio ci salverà, no?
fai un favore. Produci concime. Vai a cagare.

 Quante storie...l'agricoltura bio ci salverà, no?
No.
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 No.
Già, anzi...
Ciao!