A new crisis is emerging, a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire, Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist at BMO Financial Group said at the Empire Club's 14th annual investment outlook in Toronto on Thursday."It's not a matter of if, but when," he warned investors. "It's going to hit this year hard."
Read the whole story here and more here.With almost 7 billion people on a planet that can sustainably support 1.5 billion people, who couldn't see this coming?
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The second link should be to here. I'm on the LATOC mailing list as well Gary & read the article at first link the other day. Luckily my new neighbour grows her own veggies which I have access to :)
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