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Rising food prices are tightening the squeeze on populations already struggling to buy adequate food, demanding radical reform of the global food system, Oxfam has warned according to BBC online Tuesday.
By 2030, the average cost of key crops could increase by between 120 per cent and 180 per cent, the charity forecasts.It is the acceleration of a trend which has already seen food prices double in the last 20 years.
Half of the rise to come will be caused by climate change, Oxfam predicts. It calls on world leaders to improve regulation of food markets and invest in a global climate fund.
– The food system must be overhauled if we are to overcome the increasingly pressing challenges of climate change, spiralling food prices and the scarcity of land, water and energy, said Barbara Stocking, Oxfam’s chief executive.
World food prices have already more than doubled since 1990, according to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) figures, and Oxfam predicts that this trend will accelerate over the next 20 years.
In its report, “Growing a Better Future” (se neden for), Oxfam says predictions suggest the world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2050 but the average growth rate in agricultural yields (afgrøder) has almost halved since 1990.
According to the charity’s research, the world’s poorest people now spend up to 80 per cent of their incomes on food – with those in the Philippines spending proportionately four times more than those in the UK, for instance – and more people will be pushed into hunger as food prices climb.
In India, people spend more than twice the proportion of their income on food than UK residents – paying the equivalent of 10 pounds for a litre of milk and 6 pounds for a kilo of rice.
In its report, Oxfam says a “broken” food system causes “hunger, along with obesity (overvægt), obscene waste, and appalling environmental degradation”, BBC notes.
Man kan læse den fulde rapport via linket
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/papers/growing-better-future.html
