{"id":15193,"date":"2011-02-22T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2011-02-22T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:49:00","slug":"jim-harkness-is-famine-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15193","title":{"rendered":"Jim Harkness: Is Famine the New Normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jim Harkness<br \/>\nFebruary 17, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this commentary appeared in <a title=\"Policy Innovations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.policyinnovations.org\/ideas\/commentary\/data\/000209\" target=\"_self\">Policy Innovations<\/a>, a publication of the Carnegie Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When global food prices spiked in 2007-08, a hundred million people  were added to the ranks of the world\u2019s hungry, pushing the total number  over 1 billion for the first time in history. Now, just two years later,  we are seeing another food price hike, and more famine is likely to  follow.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published its <a title=\"Global Food Price Index\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/50519\/icode\/\" target=\"_self\">global food price index<\/a> for January 2011. The agency\u2019s index was at its highest level (both in  real and nominal terms) since the FAO started measuring food prices in  1990. Food riots have already begun in Algeria. As history repeats  itself and the second major global food crisis in two years takes shape,  it is vital that we learn the lessons of the first crisis, and address  its fundamental causes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/\/iatp.typepad.com\/thinkforward\/2011\/02\/is-famine-the-new-normal.html\">Click here to continue reading, &#8220;Is Famine the New Normal?&#8221; by Jim Harkness<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Harkness February 17, 2011 A version of this commentary appeared in Policy Innovations, a publication of the Carnegie Council. When global food prices spiked in 2007-08, a hundred million people were added to the ranks of the world\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3X3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15195,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions\/15195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}