Tensions rise as global food crisis takes hold - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food, and farmers cannot keep up.

In short, the world faces a food crisis, and in some places it is already boiling over.

Around the globe, people are protesting and governments are responding with often counterproductive controls on prices and exports - a new politics of scarcity in which ensuring food supplies is becoming a major challenge for the 21st century. Full Story »