[vinnomot] Please help Bangladesh with food--

You may be aware of devastation but destruction of 25% food crops in Bangladesh will have a far reaching implication.  World is passing through an acute food crisis because excess food production in advanced countries are being fed into Bio-fuel production. Think of these

 

--US food aid dropped from $3B to less $0.5B from 2002 to 2006-because there is no excess food in USA thanks to ethanol fuel. Indeed USA is facing domestic crisis of rising food price for the same.

 

-India imposed a ban on food export recently, the country has to import food for the first

time in 30 years

 

-UN Food for hunger programme is facing acute food collection crisis to feed 34 Saharan countries facing a total or partial faminne

 

Bangladesh was already put on yellow zone for last five month in food security index-25% destruction of crops will put it on red alert. Worst part is-UN will not be able to help much with food.

 

Mr Quddus Khan (vinnomot@yahoo.com) has taken initiative to mobilize LA people for food donation which will be sent to aid agency in Bangladesh soon. Chittagong port is closed-so shipping date is not set yet. We request Bangladeshi communities in other cities to take similar initiative to send food to Bangladesh.

 

Please listen to our Binodon Radio show in which we talked to Mr Ujjal who is working for aid agency in cyclone devastated area. 

 

www.vinnomot.com

 

Biplab

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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