Higher Food Prices Can Destabilize Countries

[sharon sanders]

American newspaper: price rises in destabilizing Egypt and the food crisis looming over the global round of Egyptian

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يبدأ صانعو السياسة في جميع أنحاء العالم، حواراً بشأن ارتفاع أسعار الغذاء، الذي يخلق زعزعة الاستقرار علي نحو كبير في دول مثل مصر وهاييتي.​

Policy makers begin throughout the world, a dialogue on higher food prices, which creates instability in some large countries like Egypt and Haiti.

وقالت صحيفة ?دالاس نيوز? الأمريكية، في افتتاحيتها أمس، إن الموقف الدولي قاتم للغاية، لدرجة أن البنك الدولي أنشأ صندوقاً لمساعدة الدول النامية في تنمية مزيد من الغذاء، معتبرة ذلك طفرة تحظي بالترحيب.​

The newspaper said ?Dallas News? America, the opening page of yesterday that the international situation very dark, to the extent that the World Bank established a fund to assist developing countries in the development of more food, believing it is a welcome breakthrough.

وأضافت الصحيفة: ?نأمل في أن يقدموا حلولهم، لأن هذا الحوار، يؤثر علي كل شيء، بدءاً من المزارع في ولاية تكساس، وحتي موائد الغذاء في القاهرة?.​

The newspaper added: ?hope to offer solutions, because this dialogue, affects everything, from farms in Texas, and even meals in food in Cairo?.

وتابعت الصحيفة الأمريكية: إن كثيراً من الدول النامية، سمحت للولايات المتحدة وغيرها من الدول النامية الأخري، بأن تصبح موردة لغذائها.​

The newspaper added America: that many developing countries, allowed the United States and other other developing nations, to become a supplier of food.

وأكدت أن هذا الإجراء لن يستمر إلي الأبد، بالنظر إلي النمو السكاني المتزايد في المناطق الرئيسية حول العالم.​

She stressed that this action will not last forever, given the increasing population growth in major regions around the world.

وأوضحت أن البنك الدولي، إلي جانب المؤسسات الأخري، سوف يكون لها التأثير الأكبر من خلال الاستثمار بشكل استراتيجي في اقتصاديات الزراعة بالقارتين الأفريقية والآسيوية وجزر الكاريبي، مشيرة إلي أن الدول النامية غالباً ما ينقصها الحبوب المهجنة التي تنتج محاصيل وفيرة.​

The World Bank, together with other institutions, will have the greatest impact through strategic investment in agriculture economics of the African continent, Asian and Caribbean islands, pointing out that developing countries often lacked the hybrid seeds that produce abundant crops.




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[Sally Furniss]

Re: Higher Food Prices Can Destabilize Countries

Editorial: Food prices matter from Texas to Egypt

12:00 AM CDT on Monday, June 23, 2008

Policymakers around the world are beginning a conversation about rising food prices, the ones that risk creating great instability in countries like Haiti and Egypt. That conversation will directly affect Texas farmers.

The international situation is so grim that the World Bank just created a fund to help developing nations grow more food. That's a welcome shift.

Many developing nations have let the United States and other developed countries become their food suppliers. That arrangement can't hold up forever ? not with so much U.S. corn going to produce ethanol and not with raging population growth in key areas around the world.

The World Bank, plus other institutions, will have the most impact by strategically investing in the farm economies of countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. For example, developing nations often lack the hybrid seeds that yield bountiful harvests.

They don't get developed overnight, as farmers here in Texas and scientists at schools like Texas A&M will attest. But hybrid seeds can make a substantial difference in the production of a crop, which is why international aid could help farmers in less-developed nations produce more food with better seeds.

The World Bank also can help farmers in poor nations afford fertilizer, the rising price of which is a huge issue here in Texas, too. U.S. farmers are paying 65 percent more for fertilizer than they did last year.

One reason is that a few cartels, including in the U.S., control the price for potash, a prime fertilizer ingredient.

Texas farmers certainly have a lot riding on the promise of Sen. Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, to investigate this arrangement. Congress can help by eliminating the law that allows a few U.S. potash producers to set prices for the mineral.

President Bush will meet with several world leaders next month to further discuss food issues.

We hope they present their own answers because this conversation affects everything from farms in Texas to dinner tables in Cairo.

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