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Is widespread hunger still a threat? Aren the harvests of staple crops at risk?

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Is widespread hunger still a threat? Aren the harvests of staple crops at risk?

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There’s absolutely no data to suggest that famine is near or that a collapse in grain harvests is likely. Of the five major grains in the world, corn and soybeans are used for feed and oils, not for food. The big food crops are wheat and rice, but rice is not really an international grain. Only about 5 percent of what’s consumed every year is traded globally. The one big grain traded around the world is wheat, and inventories are somewhat lower than they have been in recent years. But the regions that tend to be persistently hungry, such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, are almost totally unaffected because they don’t participate in the global grain trade. The difference is that the cost of food-aid programs has skyrocketed. And remember that the price of grain is only part of the total cost of food. Prices have risen with the fall of the dollar and the rising cost of oil, which has a direct impact on the price of fertilizers. What role can genetically modified food crops play

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