Global food crisis forecast

Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods.

Although food stocks are generally good despite much of this year's harvests being wiped out in Pakistan and Russia, sugar and rice remain at a record price.
Global wheat and maize prices recently jumped nearly 30% in a few weeks while meat prices are at 20-year highs, according to the key Reuters-Jefferies commodity price indicator. Last week, the US predicted that global wheat harvests would be 30m tonnes lower than last year, a 5.5% fall. Meanwhile, the price of tomatoes in Egypt, garlic in China and bread in Pakistan are at near-record levels. ...

read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/25/impending-global-food-crisis

under the "shrewd as snakes, innocent as doves" banner, please allow me to post a few resources.

http://www.seedsavers.org/

next growing season, God willing, buy seeds from these folks and learn to save your own, in everything.

and Joseph set the precedent, storing wheat, this firm, you can buy sealed buckets of wheat "berrys", (hard red spring wheat) they also sell hand grinders:

http://www.wheatsales.com/product/grain/hard-red-spring-wheat

on the site they sell grinders, also at this site:

http://www.readymaderesources.com/cart/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=653

all this aside, no fear. Faith in Jesus, what CAN the world do to us? take our lives?

this body is dead, the soul alive in Christ.

shrewd as snakes, tsaddiqim, saints.....neil