Wealth Is No Longer a Cushion From Hunger ; Hat Is the Biggest Crisis Facing the World Today? What Should Be Keeping Us Awake at Night As We Contemplate This New and Dangerous Century? Global Warming? Oil Prices? Banks Collapsing? Terrorism?

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Hat is the biggest crisis facing the world today? What should be keeping us awake at night as we contemplate this new and dangerous century? Global warming? Oil prices? Banks collapsing? Terrorism?

They're all real enough threats. But a growing rumble among some of the world's senior economists points to a curiously old- fashioned-sounding catastrophe to come: the great global food shortage. And this could be the biggest crisis of all.

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Wealth Is No Longer a Cushion From Hunger ; Hat Is the Biggest Crisis Facing the World Today? What Should Be Keeping Us Awake at Night As We Contemplate This New and Dangerous Century? Global Warming? Oil Prices? Banks Collapsing? Terrorism?

In the words of the World Bank president Robert Zoellick, it will "stunt the physical and intellectual growth" of the next generation. And the first signs of this impending catastrophe are here already.

Five people died last week in food riots in Haiti, and at the weekend 10,000 Bangladeshis, angered th...

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