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Food Riots: System Breakdown.

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The new realisation in the West that the availability of food is a major concern in many countries around the world came with a jolt. Quite suddenly newspaper reports were agog with accounts of food riots in up to ten countries, the fall of one government over food prices and supply, and claims that many other countries were struggling and their populations restless. Even where food was available, it was now being priced at levels that the poor could not afford. After decades of celebrating how science, usually in the guise of the Green revolution, had solved the food problem--even given population growth that will see the world passing 7 billion people in the near future and 9 billion by 2050--this is a shock requiring serious thought and action.

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