High Food Prices Hurt More Than Just Africa

There will be more blood:

New Zealand Herald, 5:00AM Saturday April 26, 2008, By Catherine Masters

Starvation in African countries often stems from food shortages caused by war. Now people in some of the poorest countries in the world fear starvation for another reason - globally spiralling food prices.

Already there have been riots in the streets and high-level warnings of massacres to come.Africa is not alone. Strife has broken out over pasta prices in Italy, tortilla prices in Mexico and tofu products in Indonesia.  More...