“A rolling tsunami of social unrest is underway as we speak—hungry people are desperate people capable of taking desperate actions,” warned the UN representative for CIVICUS, an international alliance for citizen participation.
“This tsunami is rapidly enveloping the global South, and it won’t take much longer before it knocks at the door of the global North,” added the representative, Vicente Garcia-Delgado.
At a forum on the world food crisis held at the United Nations May 16, civil society groups stressed that more than 800 million people are now at risk of starvation, while 100 million have joined the ranks of the extremely poor in just the last few months and are now living on less than $1 a day.
