World Bank: major food price volatility will last 5 years.

<P> Now, many people have this feeling: vegetable market where no food is not expensive, 100 dollars can not buy many things. .</ P> <P> British "Guardian" to 25 "price rose to the top, predictable global food crisis" in the title report, current prices, the price of vegetables is not the highest, the next two years to reach the highest point .Now you can foresee the global food crisis. .</ P> <P> World Bank estimates, meat, sugar, rice, wheat and other major food price volatility will last 5 years, has asked the developed countries to prepare the global food crisis relief. .</ P> <P> world's basic food are up </ P> <P> recently, on daily necessities, heard the news of soaring food prices. .Garlic can be sold per kg of 25 RMB, South Korea, a Chinese cabbage was sold for 100 yuan or so ... ... </ P> <P> according to Reuters Jefferies Group's financial company data, just a few weeks recently, .Global wheat and corn prices rose by nearly 30%, while meat prices reached the highest point in 20 years. .</ P> <P> last week, the United States predicted that compared with last year's global wheat production less than 3,000 tons, down by 5.5%. .At the same time, Egypt's tomatoes, garlic and China are close to Pakistan, a record price of bread. .</ P> <P> past six months, global wheat and maize prices have risen 57% and rice rose by 45%, sugar up 55%, soybean prices rose in the past 16 months, the highest price. .</ P> <P> now, global food prices have not yet reached the 2008 level. .However, compared with the previous month, the British food has risen by 5%, reaching the highest level in two years. .</ P> <P> many scientists predicted that the coming year may be due to large-scale droughts and floods, the next two years, food prices, rose to a record high price of vegetables will be. .</ P> <P> industrialization, urbanization, environmental degradation </ P> <P> why this situation? .Commissioner of the United Nations right to food, Olivier De Schutter The answer is: environmental degradation, urbanization, large areas of land harvest was used as biofuel. .</ P> <P> "worldwide, due to serious environmental degradation, loss of 500 million per year -1000 million hectares of agricultural land, due to industrialization and urbanization, the loss of 19.5 million hectares per year of agricultural land." Deschutes said. .</ P> <P> "In recent years, due to large scale industrial plantations, the land was continuously pressed." Deschutes said, "According to the World Bank said, more than 1 / 3 of the harvest was made into bio-land .fuel. "</ P> <P> In addition, extreme weather is the driving force behind. .In general, Russia and Pakistan, food stocks are quite "substantial." .But this year, the Russian boom reclaim a forest fire, the serious floods in Pakistan, the two food production so greatly reduced. .Currently, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines government has warned that, due to drought or floods this year, next year there may be extreme weather and speculators to hoard goods, lack of food short-grain, may be inevitable that the prices .. .</ P> <P> impending global food crisis? .</ P> <P> "Guardian" said, is business. .The basis of many countries may be due to food shortages, rising prices lead to unrest. .But now these "price fluctuation signal" would trigger similar global food crisis in 2008, expert opinions were divided into two groups. .</ P> <P> Some experts believe that will not lead to global food crisis, but the period of time, high global commodity prices are iron nails things. .</ P> <P> "as the 2008 food crisis will not come immediately, but the related factors that have been lurking explosive. Now and 2008, there are too many different. Grain harvest more and more global grain stocks .more. "Oxfam policy adviser Chris Rather the Commission said," prices will always be up and down, and now the market a little bit nervous. "</ P> <P> faction expert support will occur near the global .view of the food crisis. .They also believe that food prices will also trigger political unrest. .In particular, they pointed out that last month, the price of bread rose by 30%, the capital of Maputo, Mozambique and other African countries to riot, killing 12 people. .</ P> <P> Aba FAO senior economist 阿布多尔雷扎 Louisiana said, "In recent weeks, we found that some of the global food crisis in 2008 led to the same sign. Our (food .) prices may not be as high as 2008, but this time, will last longer. "</ P> <P> last week, the World Bank said that world food price volatility will continue for 5 years. .The World Bank has request of those countries, developed the Government financing of 10 billion dollars in "food crisis gold." .</ P>.