The causes of rising food prices are reasonably well-established. The consequences are daily becoming more apparent, especially in Africa. What is less well-understood is the implications a successful conclusion to the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of negotiations on a new trade deal might have for African agriculture and consumers of food.
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Sustainable Agriculture 
June 19, 2008 at 6:59 am |
[…] Maryanne wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe causes of rising food prices are reasonably well-established. The consequences are daily becoming more apparent, especially in Africa. What is less well-understood is the implications a successful conclusion to the World Trade … […]
August 7, 2008 at 1:03 pm |
With the current uncertainties with food prices there is a greater need for us to conserve and be increasingly
economical about food consumption at home. We have become wasteful as consumers of food and have never really had a need to feel otherwise before this crisis started. Blaming the rampant consumerism of the supermarkets has now irrelevant in this discussion. The situation now is that if we don’t change our food habits this situation could easily escalate completely out of control. The responsibility is now on us all to change our food buying and food consuming habits.
Simple food saving tips are things we need to get used to and practice more regularly. Most of these are common sense and can be quite creative. You can find a list of free food saving tips at sites such as http://www.foodcrisis.co.uk amongst other similar sites as well.
We all need to contribute to a fairer and more food wise program for ourselves.