Translation: Give Us More Money. - The pursuit of different fuel sources is apparently putting the squeeze upon the United Nations's World Food Program.
Javier Blas and Jenny Wiggins report for the Financial Times: UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world:
Rising prices for food have led the United Nations programme fighting famine in Africa and other regions to warn that it can no longer afford to feed the 90m people it has helped for each of the past five years on its budget.
One of the factors that is raising the price of food has something to do with the pursuit of biofuels.
So in one way, world leaders have created a food shortage by claiming we have to get away from using fossil fuels and pursue other fuel sources.
Of course, the solution would be to spend money and teach the world to farm instead of just handing them food. I know that's probably oversimplifying the dynamics of international politics, but it seems to me that all these food give-aways only encourages the criminal leaders of some of Africa's countries to further oppress their people and extort countries that care about the world's starving.
