Alimentary crisis, the America forced to the rationing
From the rich East North to the West Coast the contraction of the offer and the prices to stars push the great distribution to limit the sale of flour, rice and oil
“Because of the reduced availability, we are forced to limit the rice sale”: the desolating warning, written on a trust to great characters, hangs in the store over semiempty shelves. A scene for a long time of war or from underdeveloped nation, but the theatre is anything but: to be confronted with the rationing it is the rich America, granary of the world now to taken with an alimentary crisis that sees the offer of kinds the first necessity to contrarsi and prices to the consumer to fly.
The trust makes extension of oneself in department store of the chain Costco Wholesale to Mountain View, in California, but the rationing has touched the entire West Coast and the richer areas of the East North, from the New England to New York: to being subordinates to sale limitations they are also the flour and the oil, but between the shelves of the Californian store it is above all of the rice that feels the lack, since the customers are composed above all from Asian immigrants us. “Dov'è the rice? ”, smarrito question Yajun Liu, engineer of interviewed High Pole from the New York Sun, “All would have to be able to buy a simple thing like the rice. It is ridicule”: on the shelves they are remained, to the place of the customary bags from 20 chili, large packages less of the half, but with a price that grazes the 16 dollars. In the stores more little ones, classics minimarket of quarter, the cost exceed also the 30 dollars for bags from 10 chili and the order is the same one: a single package for customer, because the escorts are reduced to the bone.
The phenomenon is diffused to spot of leopardo, but it is however a first serious symptom of that phenomenon of iperinflazione in the alimentary field that is putting in ginocchio the economy and threatening the emergency in the poor countries: the pull-up of the prices and the sparsity of food have caused turned armed to Haiti, in Indonesia and various countries Africans, while India has blocked the exports of every quality of rice, to the infuori of most valuable and appreciated on the foreign markets, and the Vietnam have said not to the company of a new contract of sale of coming rice from abroad.
But the strategy to impose trade barriers them or to resort to incentives for the import of alimentary assets it has been stamped like a danger that can “distort the mechanisms of the international commerce and aggravate the crisis” from the general secretary of the UN: during a conference on commerce and development to Accra, in Ghana, Ban Ki-moon has launch an alarm for the possible negative consequences that aggravating itself of the crisis he could have on the international emergency, the economic increase and the social progress. The world-wide Bank esteem that the increase of the prices has grazed in average 83% in last the 3 years and that the alimentary crisis, primed from a concomitanza of factors - from the increment of the demands for cereals for the production of ecocombustibili to the pull-up of the consumption in China and India -, can extraordinarily lead under the threshold of the poverty at least 100 million persons in times breviums.
