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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Florian Wiedmann

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Greek reports rise in Unemployment - 0 views

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    The article is mainly based upon factual basis in regard to the unemployment in Greece. Unemployment has risen to 27.3% in Greece as a reaction to the horrible state of the economy. The economically non-active, people who are not actively looking for a job, rose to over 3.2 million. The total number of unemployed rose by 16.3%.
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WHO | 3. Global and regional food consumption patterns and trends - 0 views

  • printable version 3. Global and regional food consumption patterns and trends: Previous page | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Table 5. Supply of vegetables per capita, by region, 1979 and 2000 (kg per capita per year)
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    The article talks about future trends in demand and consumption of food in the future. The graphs portrayed in the article, show the estimated increase in food demanded over the next 10-15 years. This has to do with the fact that the population is continuing to grow significantly in the near future. The problem with this is that while more food is needed, many countries have little room for improvements. This will make them rely heavily on imports in the future as they are not able to feed their growing population. The biggest problem is that if the food production is not increased significantly over the next years, there might be a global shortage of food. 
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    The example of food is very relevant when talking about this topic. As the worlds population, the food becomes more scarce, the demand rises. This causees the price of food to increase. Usually, this would cause many people to allocate their resources towards the food production. Currently however, despite rising prices of food, it is still more profitable to produce something else. This causes the food production to be lacking of food, which causes the price to rise even more.
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