Martin Walker UPI Editor Emeritus

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI)—The announcement by Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, that the globe’s main provider of food aid may have to start rationing is not just bad news for countries like Afghanistan and Ethiopia that depend on its supplies. It’s grim news for everybody. The global economy is just about coping with the subprime crisis, the fall of the dollar and oil at $100 a barrel. But the inflationary surge in food prices could prove to be the final straw.  Read more here