With No Easy Solution In Sight
TEXT Valerie Gee
On a sun-baked street in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, men and women jostle in separate queues leading to a sheet-metal shed, awaiting their turn to buy rice at the subsidised price of 25 taka (US 36cents) a kilogram.
It has come with little warning, but its effects have been overwhelming. Since January 2008, the price of the worldís basic foodstuffs - rice, wheat and corn, among others - have increased sharply on the international commodity market. Figures from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) show that for 2007/2008, world cereal stocks will have fallen to a 25-year low of 405 million tonnes, even as global food stockpiles are at historically low levels, with reserves having dropped by half since 2000.
PRAY :
A supernatural solution to a natural problem.
"My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory." - Philippians 4:19
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