Credit crisis and food supply

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Walker's World: New food crisis looms

by Martin Walker
Washington (UPI) April 6, 2009

"We tend to forget that the worldwide plunge into recession last year was the result of three separate phenomena that combined to breed disaster. The financial crisis was joined by a food crisis and a fuel crisis as the prices of food and energy soared, triggering food riots across the world.

"And now there are ominous signs of another food crisis in the making this year, spurred in part by the ongoing credit crunch that has made it difficult for farmers to get loans."

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http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Walkers_World_New_food_crisis_looms_999.html

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1. People get angry when they are hungry

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2. ..or they plant seeds...

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3. Like the folks in these stories...

"Our land massively degraded, our poles wobbling and disintegrating from climate change, and our national and global economies in the midst of immense metamorphosis. These are catastrophic cries from the land.

"In measured response to the context of our environment and our economy, thousands of urban and suburban community gardens and farms have taken root in North America over the last 15-20 years.

"Community farms and gardens – located in cities, suburbs and countryside – have established pathways that can lead to a healthy, sustainable foundation for our transition and our future.

"These farms and gardens are keystone models that – if widely emulated – can help us address step by steady step our crises of land and climate degradation, as well as a host of economic and dietary imperatives."

http://thecalloftheland.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/as-land-climate-degrade-urban-farms-take-root/