The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have
dropped to a dangerously low level. The World Food Price Index has
doubled in one decade. The ranks of the hungry are expanding;
political unrest is spreading. On the demand side of the food
equation, there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table tonight
who were not there last night. And some 3 billion increasingly
affluent people are moving up the food chain, consuming
grain-intensive livestock and poultry products. At the same time,
water shortages and heat waves are making it more difficult for
farmers to keep pace with demand. As grain-exporting countries ban
exports to keep their food prices down, importing countries are
panicking. In response, they are buying large tracts of land in
other countries to grow food for themselves. The land rush is on.
Could food become the weak link for us as it was for so many
earlier civilizations? Lester Brown, one of the leading
environmentalists of our time, explains why world food supplies are
tightening and tells what we need to do about it.
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