http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/13wheat.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/02242008/new_grain24.shtml
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php
Most of us regular working folk do not have the influence to to change the trend toward global food crisis. The best we can do for the rest of the world is to give to organizations that help local farmers to be more productive, or help food insecure people in poor nations to become more self sufficient (ideally through permaculture innovations), and to buy American grown FOOD. Do not encourage the government in its attempt to grow our own oil and import our food!!!! Buy the most locally grown food you can. Eating lettuce from your backyard instead of lettuce shipped from California. Eat rice grown in California instead of rice from India. Don’t price the people of India out of their own rice by buying rice imported from India! Don’t turn California rice farms into housing developments by buying Indian rice! Washingtonians, eat apples not bananas! When you eat local (I mean that in the very broad sense described previously, not in the 100-mile sense), you support American farmers feeding Americans, and you also support farmers in poorer countries feeding people in their countries.
Oh, here is another article about eating insects- the UN is researching it! Another way for humans to live sustainably with sustainable forests!
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25662&Cr=insects&Cr1=food
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