food shortage

* Half the world’s population will face serious food shortages within the century. 14(University of Washington researchers, in Science, 2009)
* Harvests already distressed by drought or floods in Russia, Germany, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Ukraine, Pakistan, etc. (Sept 2010)15
* Food prices rose 5% globally in August 2010. In Mozambique, food riots in response to raised bread prices led to 10 fatalities and 300 injuries. (Sept 2010)16,17,18
* High food prices that sparked deadly 2008 food riots worldwide were due to a combination of climate change and increased demand for animal feed from populations in India and China. (UN World Food Program)19
* The number of people suffering from hunger exceeded 1 billion for the first time in 2009.20
* Over 9 million people die worldwide each year because of hunger and malnutrition. Five million are children.21