According to the United Food and Agriculture Organization (FAQ), a whopping 50 million people were added to the lists of hungry last night due to the never ending price increase.
The FAQ stated that the global crisis is a combination of rising demand of agriculture products since population growth is rapidly increasing and economic development in rising countries, the rapid expansion of food crop-based biofuels and climate change, in particular drought and floods.
Our government should invest in infrastructures particularly to agriculture cause i've noticed that most of the government's fund will just go the AFP, PNP or DILG in sustaining supplementary needs in a never ending war against the rebels.
FAQ Director-General Jacques Diouf said that " Poor countries are feeling the serious impact of soaring food and energy prices. We urgently need new and stronger partnerships to address the growing food-security problems in poor countries. No single institution or country will be able to resolve this crisis", at the European Parliament in Brussels.
The leaders of different countries should step-up in lending a hand to those poverty-stricken countries.
The world is losing 5 million to 10 million hectares of agricultural land every year due to severe degradation plus adding climate changes thus making lives of the farmers a living hell since climate has a vital role in gaining crops. Farmers must given modern inputs, post production facilities and rural infrastructure since they're the one's that do the harvesting.
FAQ also noted that the world agriculture will also have to address major challenges like water control and climate changes. It's alarming, knowing that the water supply is decreasing and water is very limited since there are more that 1.2 billion people today who are living in river basins, thus the area drained by a river and its streams.
The FAO said the existing situation is a result of the international community’s neglect of agriculture in developing countries for a long time.
The UN should act fast before the situation gets out of hand in the future.
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It is just so sad...i hope this calvary will end. The number of people that is getting more hungry in the Philippines is increasing tremendously. Jaaaahhhh...look at the prices of commodities???? but look at the salary of the people? What the f*&&^%!
yup!. Prices are getting high but the salary is not moving up then how would we suppose to survive?!.
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