Guatamela Faces Hunger
Filed in archive Current News by Reden Rodriguez on May 05, 2007

The effect of a further corn price increase will mean disaster. According to Ian Cherret of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization:
"The increase in the price of maizehas left this sector of the population much more vulnerable than they were before ... and weather affecting crops is increasingly unpredictable due to climate change. You put the two elements together and you begin to have a killer."
Is ethanol partly to blame? Can we be saving the planet and yet killing our fellowmen in the process? What is Guatemala to do?
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