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From: Brian Davey <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, 31 January, 2011 9:57:12
Subject: Global Food Price Crisis: What Tunisia and Egypt have to do with the Transition Agenda

On the surface what is happening in Tunisia and Egypt have nothing to do with the concerns of the Transition Movement around Peak Oil and Climate Change.

Think again - this article in the Telegraph gives one cause for thought

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8291470/Egypt-and-Tunisia-usher-in-the-new-era-of-global-food-revolutions.html

This power point presentation by Lester R Brown from Jan 2011 shows the underlying dynamic of World Food Production, demand and prices.

http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_files/WOTE_FoodSlidesEarthPolicyInstitute.ppt