After this weekend's plea for assistance with the global mission for comprehensive human development to help Oxfam get tractors and sustainable development to the third world, I realized most Americans are worried about their own family's welfare, because the food crisis has come to America .... http://delawarewatch.blogspot.com/2008/04/food-shortages-come-to-us.html Thank you Republican President for your unfree neo-mercantilist market and managed trade agreements . (h/t to Dana for this story, now let's see an expose on trade policy and mercantilism ....) As an aside Brad DeLong the economist from California, has noted that this policy is based on the junk markets of paper and his weblog should be daily reading for all those concerned with economic issues.....

Last week, I listed the mechanics that are driving the world food crisis and suggestions that governments can follow to end the crisis. This weekend I want to show you want the crisis looks like in some parts of the world. And why that matters to you . Now- we know how to and can boost food production through the development of infrastructure and farm management techniques in the developing world. But we have to act fast and need donors.....so we can partner with Oxfam and others in establishing self-sustaining agricultural development projects and clean water. If you you want to help contact me at pallikaros@yahoo.com to make a donation to the Global Mission for Comprehensive Human Development.

Last week, I listed the mechanics that are driving the world food crisis and suggestions that governments can follow to end the crisis. This weekend I want to show you want the crisis looks like in some parts of the world. And why that matters to you . If you you want to help contact me to make a donation to the Global Mission for Comprehensive Human Development.

I have to warn you. This is a resource rich article and it may take time to read, but to sum it up, mercantilism is causing the food crisis led by investment in inefficient corn and wheat and rice biofuels and coupled with protectionism that prevents us from getting food from the US to where it needed and increased gas prices that are also based on mercantilistic markets and not supply and demand. If you have time and are interested in the world food crisis, it is worth the time it takes to read. Food crises are not new. Throughout the 1860's Ireland suffered one of the most devastating food crisis ever recorded. Almost a million people died according to most of the books on the The Great Hunger . Today's food crisis is no different. It is an Irish style famine in mass and effecting the poorest people in the world. Is it a crisis of capitalism? No, not really, capitalism when it works correctly capitalism should provide markets to fill in the void so if one country is short of ...

. . . as seen by a local expert. I can still remember being told by my parents about starving children in India. Later I discovered that India had become agriculturally self-sufficient. Now, while preparing a post on the escalating world food crisis, I found this interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva at Al Jazeera . It's not very long, but it is an interesting perspective.