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The food crisis in the beginning of year 2008 (April) was triggered by the dramatic escalation in the global food prices, that had caused hunger, riots and hoarding in poor countries.  The crisis had been tackles by world wide actions, both the short term and long term meassures.  The short term measure was to assist the poor countries with rapid financial assisstance by the World Bank, and as such eased the pressure to World Food Programme, a UN agency in feeding around 73 million people in that particular year. The longterm measures were to help developing countries to increase their food production capacity, as well as the continous effort to improve the world trading system. The top rice producers and the april 2008 rice projection as of November 2007, US Dept. of Agriculture data, were as follows: China 129.5 million tonnes India 94.0 Indonesia 35.5 Bangladesh 28.4 Vietnam 23.3 Thailand 18.5 Burma 11.3 Philippines 10.4 Brazil 8.2 Japa...

According to UN estimates that release in March 11th, 2009 the worlds population was projected to exceed nine billion in 2050, up from 6.8 this year and seven billion early in 2012. The additional 2.3 billion are mostly in the developing world, which was estimated to increase from 5.6 billion this year to 7.9 billion in 2050. During the same period population in the developed nations was estimated to rise from 1.23 billion to 1.28 billion. This estimate figure included the projected net immigration that are coming from developing countries at a rate of 2.4 million persons annually from 2009 to 2050. Within the developing countries population for 49 least developed countries is going to be doubled from 0.84 billion to 1.7 billion, while for the rest of third would its population is increasing from 4.8 billion to 6.2 billion during the same period. It should be noted tht the most probable scenario of future direction of fertility rates are its declines from 2.56 children per women in 20...