After riots that left 13 dead and over 400 injured, the Mozambique cabinet lowered the price of bread. [REUTERS]Mozambique Bread Riots May Be Warning Sign On African Food Security -- Christian Science Monitor
As global wheat prices rise, Africans are feeling the pinch when buying something as simple as bread. Mozambique bread riots could be a warning sign for African nations who have leased fertile agricultural land to foreign countries.
I have a supreme conviction that global food markets are but the perturbation of a butterflys's wing away from a serious tipping point. In fact, I would venture that the best way to play the narrative fallacy that is the "Global Climate Change Denial Camp" is via buying a basket of breakfast commodities and grains. There are more of us, our average calorific intake is a multiple of what it was, and we have toasted the planet -- capping global agricultural output. Narrowing that perception gap and converting it into real action is going to be like herding cats.
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More News On Africa's/Mozambique's Food Crisis
Mozambique government reverses bread price hike -- AP
Mozambique Restores Subsidy To Reverse Bread Price Hike -- RTT News
Mozambique lowers cost of bread -- Al JAzeera
Mozambique reverses bread price rise in wake of riots -- BBC
150 arrested in Mozambique following deadly protests -- The Telegraph
Mozambique food riots belie African agricultural success -- Christian Science Monitor
Food Crisis Worsens in Central Africa -- New York Times
Wheat price spike raises food insecurity: UN expert -- The National
U.N. agency to hold special meeting over food prices -- CNN