The United Nations World Food Program announced Tuesday that increases in food prices could leave more than 100 million people hungry. The head of the program calls the international crisis a “silent tsunami.” A summit Tuesday was aimed at addressing the issue, and in attendance were representatives of farmers’ unions, aid agencies and supermarkets, along with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Here’s an article indicating the “perfect storm” of rising fuel prices, food shortages and the economic downturn will all hit Hawai’i first:
http://tinyurl.com/57vje4