food aid runs out of money

This is a first: Threat to millions as food aid scheme runs out of money - World Politics, World - Independent.co.uk:
The World Food Programme for the first time in its history is appealing for funds. "'This is the new face of hunger,' she [Josette Sheeran, the organisation's executive director] said. 'People are simply being priced out of food markets. It's the first time we have been hit by a dramatic market surprise. We have never before had a situation where aggressive rises in food prices keep pricing our operations out of our reach.'"
I think that this is partly down to oil price rises (which affects transporting food and the production of fertilisers and pesticides) and partly due to China's increasing demand for meat as their population becomes more prosperous (meat requires grain and a redeployment of land both of which take food away from human consumption) and also the effects of climate change. This is the shape of things to come (and I reiterate; one of the reasons Christians should cut back on meat consumption as an immediate personal mitigatory response as global citizens).
See also this article about one effect of the increase in prices: crops are being stolen in south east Asia -or at least that is the rumour. And as a counterweight, check out this article on how biodiversity is more productive according to research fully explained in the article; "This is the most comprehensive evidence that biodiverse ecosystems are more productive. As the observed productivity showed no sign of levelling at the highest species number"