The new scramble for Africa was triggered by a convergence of events: surging demand for biofuels, rising consumption patterns in China and India and the 2008 global food crisis, when the price of corn and wheat tripled, almost overnight. Responding to sudden hyperinflation, rioting and panic buying, at least 30 countries, including Argentina, Vietnam, Brazil, Cambodia and India, banned or sharply reduced food exports. In short order, Japan and South Korea, who import 70 per cent of their grains, joined a parade of countries turning to Africa to lock in means of production beyond their borders.
Leonardo Gottems on 11 Apr 12here has been three decades that Argentina and Britain joined a war at the Falklands. The war has a bunch of issues to be explored. Author of the book Rabinos de Malvinas (Rabbis from the Falklands), Hernan Dobry is an Argentinian journalist who has been a Bloomberg TV editor, a correspondent for Brazilian and Spanish channels in Buenos Aires, managing editor of Inversor Global, among other major publications. Dobry decided to write the book about the Falklands conflict to describe the unhumane struggles of the Argentine fighters at the time. Also, Dobry wanted to explore the relantionship between rabbis and the Armed Forces of his country. In an interview to Timizzer, the journalist explains more on the book and talks about the economic issues of Argentina...
