Global Voices Online

Dutch sweets will soon be available in Morocco, according to 24 Oranges.

Haitianalysis.com publishes an article by Dr. Joia Mukherjee and Donna Barry that explains why the current food crisis “is only the most recent in the hemisphere's hungriest country.”

2.6 billion links to a report by the Asian Development Bank on the soaring food prices the world over.

As Bermuda is caught between high oil prices and rising food costs, 21 Square says: “Once we've opened our eyes, we can begin striving towards true sustainability.”

All Things Pakistan voices concern - “the food crisis comes hand in hand with an energy crisis and in an environment already rife with political uncertainty and extremist threats.” and calls it a dangerous mix.

As tuition fees go up at private tertiary institutions in Trinidad and Tobago, students at one school take action, prompting Ramblings and Reason to comment: “That such a routine exercise of civic responsibility is not the norm is scary. My enduring hope is that our university students will escape this aspect of our culture.”

Fons Tuinstra blogs about a new local dish, Pi-dan Congee, introduced by KFC in China.

Aparna Ray replies to US President Geoge Bush's remark that the growing prosperity of India's large middle class is contributing to rising food prices around the world, with an apt limerick:
“It seems we have hurled,
The rest of the world,
Into crisis by not chewing grass!“