While food prices are escalating all over the world, some of us are more fortunate than others when it comes to income. As this video of Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leone's foreign minister, points out - some people will likely starve unless something is done about the rising food prices.
In our own little pockets around the world, we may be looking at the rise of food prices in supermarkets and seeing it eat into our savings. We might complain about the lack of flour in Trinidad and Tobago, or the lack of chicken, or what have you - but the truth of the matter is that some people don't even have it that good, and that without intervention a lot of people are going to starve.
In 1900, there were about 1.6 billion people on the planet. As of 2000, there have been over 6.2 billion. Our food production has not kept pace, apparently...
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Food crisis and politic crisis in Guinea-Conakry
Thank you for the translation!
Un bonjour à Mme Zaina Bangura, de Sierra Leone, pays proche de la Guinée-Conakry. J'aimerais également souligner la grave crise économique et politique qui affecte la Guinée-Conakry. La situation est très grave et nous ne savons pas s'il y a encore un Etat dans ce pays. L'Etat est en totale désintégration. Le changement attendu après les événement de janv-fév 2007 n'est pas arrivé et le peuple vit dans une grande misère. Plus rien ne fonctionne. J'en appelle également à la communauté internationale, à Avaaz, à tous ceux qui liront ce texte d'intervenir de quelque manière que ce soit pour que ce pays, la Guinée sorte de la grave situation où il se trouve L'eau manque, la nourriture commence à manquer dans certaines régions. Heureuse d'entendre une personne du continent africain, de Sierra Leone, Mme Bangura. Continuons de dire à la face du monde ce qui se passe partout sur notre planète, en particulier aussi en Guinée-Conakry. Merci
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