- Half the world’s population will face serious food shortages within the century. 14(University of Washington researchers, in Science, 2009)
- Harvests already distressed by drought or floods in Russia, Germany, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Ukraine, Pakistan, etc. (Sept 2010)15
- Food prices
rose 5% globally in August 2010. In Mozambique, food riots in response
to raised bread prices led to 10 fatalities and 300 injuries. (Sept
2010)16,17,18
- High food
prices that sparked deadly 2008 food riots worldwide were due to a
combination of climate change and increased demand for animal feed from
populations in India and China. (UN World Food Program)19
- The number of people suffering from hunger exceeded 1 billion for the first time in 2009.20
- Over 9 million people die worldwide each year because of hunger and malnutrition. Five million are children.21
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