World ‘Dangerously Close’ to Food Crisis, U.N. Says

While the U.N expected a growth in grain yields by 1.2% this year, severe weather in different parts of the world have actually caused a decrease by 2%. The U.N predicts that this fall in production could lead to a global food crisis because there is such a high demand for grain around the world. Shortages in 2007 led to riots in many different countries. While there is currently no crisis, with the shortages continuing to increase we are likely to see the same situation again unless production increases by at least 3.5%. Although corn and seed oil are good fuel alternatives, there use severely decrease the amount of food that is available. Therefore we must consider this in the bills that are passed that subsidize things such as ethanol production. Is it better to have food for the world or a more renewable fuel source?
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