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World Food Crisis 1Running Head: WORLD FOOD CRISISWorld Food Crisis and United States Immigration:Current Situation and SolutionsEric DrootmanUniversity of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of LawGlobalization and Preservation of CultureProfessor HersheyDecember 5, 2008
Note: I still consider this to be a work in progress
 
 
World Food Crisis 2Abstract:Six million children under age five are killed each year by malnutrition and related
illnesses. The continuing rise in food prices is so great that the term ―agflation‖ has been created
to describe it. While the United States refugee and asylum program admits over approximately70,000 people per year, there is no system in place where individuals suffering from starvationand food deprivation can be readily granted immigration relief. A proposed solution to thisproblem is the establishment of a natural disaster refugee program where the individuals fromcountries suffering the greatest are giving priority in being granted relief in the United Stateswithout having to establish a fear of persecution by governmental actors. Even with this newframework, additional change in solving international food shortages can be established in-country through
a reformulation of the United States’ international food aid program by cutting
out the agribusinesses and shifting aid to local producers and development of farming systems.
 
World Food Crisis 3World Food Crisis and United States Immigration:Current Situation and SolutionsI.
 
Modern Food Shortage BackgroundThe current world hunger statistics are startling. Throughout the world there are 854million hungry people with more than 16,000 children dying daily from hunger relatedconditions.
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Seventy-three million people within the 78 countries that rely on food supply fromthe United Nations are facing a reduction in rations this year.
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The world already producesenough food to feed every man, women, and child, and has the ability to feed up to 12 billionpeople. Yet six million children under age five are killed every year by malnutrition and relatedillnesses.
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 In an understanding of history, these facts are neither shocking nor do they representchange from past conditions.
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The modern difference is that countries that have had relativelystable food supplies are now heading into famine like conditions. Many of the countries arerelatively close in distance to the United States or are visa waiver countries
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meaning that theypotentially have a great immigration effect on the United States or at least more so than countriessuch as China or the Philippines. For example, between August 2007 and March 2008, the priceof basic food commodities in Haiti increased by up to 65 percent.
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An October 1, 2008, reportindicate that 80 percent of the market stalls in Cuba are empty, with products like peppers,
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World Food Programme,
 Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series, 2007 
(2008),www.wfp.org/policies/introduction/other/documents/pdf/World_Hunger_Series_2007_Hunger_and_Health_EN.pdf.
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Kate Smith & Rob Edwards,
2008 The Year Of Global Food Crisis
, Sunday Herald, March 8, 2008,http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2104849.0.2008_the_year_of_global_food_crisis.php.
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UN Human Rights Council,
 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler 
, January 10, 2008,http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/47c3dbe82.html.
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Cormac Ó. Grada.
 Making Famine History
, 45 J. Econ Literature 3 (2007),http://www.ucd.ie/economics/staff/dmadden/mar07_Article1.pdf.
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US Agency for International Development
 , Global Food Insecurity and Price Increase - Update No. 1
, May 13, 2008,http://ocha-gwapps1.unog.ch/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EDIS-7ELRS7.
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