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From The Times
March 7, 2008
Already we have riots, hoarding, panic: the sign of things to come?
Carl Mortished, World Business Editor

The spectre of food shortages is casting a shadow across the globe, causing riots in Africa, consumer protests in Europe and panic in food-importing countries. In a world of increasing affluence, the hoarding of rice and wheat has begun. The President of the Philippines made an unprecedented call last week to the Vietnamese Prime Minister, requesting that he promise to supply a quantity of rice.

The personal appeal by Gloria Arroyo to Nguyen Tan Dung for a guarantee was a highly unusual intervention and highlighted the Philippines’ dependence on food imports, rice in particular.

“This is a wake-up call,â€

I agree stephen.
Especially considering how we dont grow much food in thiis country.
I hear on a regular basis of how families are struggling to put a hot dinner on the table every night due to the rising fuel costs.I hear its working out cheaper to buy takeaway every night for some families.
People need to wake up and smell the non-existant coffee exports.
But hey this is England.What do we need to worry for?jk

Tracey, Derby, u.k.

The government is trying to play down these world food shortages, in case someone asks Brown-"what are you going to do about it"? Frankly he has no idea, but then no politician will face the question-"What is the UK population policy"? We have not long to find a solution.

David Vinter, Louth, Lincs., UK.

Surprising how many hum-drum stories have managed to push this potentially important news from the front pages. Something of a reflection of exactly how much 'sapiens' present in us - perhaps we should be christening ourselves "homo semi-sapiens"?

Stephen Lawrence, Cambridge, England

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/e ... 500975.ece

"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic
Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t

by F. William Engdahl

No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard. Bill Gates is investing millions in a seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, some 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. Svalbard is a barren piece of rock claimed by Norway and ceded in 1925 by international treaty (see map).

On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the Government of Norway, among others, in what is called the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group.

The seed bank is being built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the small village of Longyearbyen. It’s almost ready for ‘business’ according to their releases. The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick. It will contain up to three million different varieties of seeds from the entire world, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future,’ according to the Norwegian government. Seeds will be specially wrapped to exclude moisture. There will be no full-time staff, but the vault's relative inaccessibility will facilitate monitoring any possible human activity.

Did we miss something here? Their press release stated, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future.’ What future do the seed bank’s sponsors foresee, that would threaten the global availability of current seeds, almost all of which are already well protected in designated seed banks around the world?

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