A hot autumn like this, with peaks of 40 degrees and sandstorms impalpable that paints everything yellow , do not remember anyone in Cairo, even the elderly, interviewed by local television following the surprising developments in the national forecast. And if the apprehension of the media normally exceeds the true extent of the phenomena, "inflated" beyond measure, this is not the case.
Because after six months of temperatures hot (up to 50 degrees in June in the capital) it is natural that most of the Egyptians and linking two phenomena: climate change, runaway inflation that has hit the vegetables and turn them into a luxury item.
especially tomatoes, is also affected by an increase of 300%, have become precious jewels, from five to 15 Egyptian pounds per kilogram (one euro equals 7.95 Egyptian pounds). Eggplants flying at an altitude of 12 to 20 pounds and beans, all essential foods in the diet of an average citizen, but more and more unattainable: suffice it to say that the salary of a civil servant is a few hundred pounds per month. Meanwhile, red meat is a mirage, since costs 70 pounds per kg.
"Because of climate change, this year the production of tomatoes and other vegetables was small," he told Cristina Lettera43 Cocchieri, researcher, specializing in economics of the Mediterranean countries, three years in Cairo. "The subject occupies the front pages of newspapers, but few to assess the risk of a possible food crisis, for example, considering the sharp cut in exports of wheat from Russia." Nothing
vegetables and rice or wheat and that's just the diet every day no longer passes through the pot: the common people feed on cheese, egg and some sweet tea. Needless to disturb the pans if you do not even have a cipolla da far rosolare.
Non รจ la prima volta, negli ultimi anni, che l’Egitto si trova ad affrontare lo spettro dell’insufficienza alimentare e del boom dei prezzi delle derrate: nel 2008, la crisi del pane causata dalla mancanza di grano ha fatto 12 vittime, cittadini morti durante le proteste popolari o nella ressa di fronte alle botteghe dei fornai.
Un tempo l'Egitto era fra i maggiori produttori ed esportatori di granaglie, ma l’aumento demografico ha capovolto la situazione: al ritmo di 1 milione di nascite all’anno, il Paese nordafricano ha superato gli 80 milioni di abitanti e procede al trotto verso nuovi traguardi.
Gli scienziati attribuiscono il rincaro delle verdure, e il peggioramento their quality, to three factors: temperature above the average, the presence of a white fly devastating to the crops and the appearance of a virus that attacks especially tomato plants.
The match of the new food scare with one of the most delicate political steps of Egyptian history is doing prick up their ears to many observers, not only to those fans of conspiracy. The food crisis in the world is: So far I have paid the worst consequences Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, where shortages of rice and wheat.
But many wonder if the Egyptian authorities, driving the prices of foodstuffs ad hoc, are trying to distract public attention on the forthcoming elections: the renewal of the popular assembly, the lower house of Egyptian Parliament, 29 November, and presidential elections in the spring. With a possible change at the top of the republic after 30 years of Mubarak's regime.
"Ashara Al Masa" (The ten in the evening), a program broadcast by public television, addressed the topic by interviewing housewives angry and trembling to the sellers market of Cairo Bab El Louq. And the conspiracy has triumphed all because of corruption that infects society, elections are approaching and that of Israel (never wrong to quote him in the Arab world), which speculates.
The crisis of tomatoes, so it's been "branded" by the newspapers, comes a few months another impasse that had severely affected the Egyptian society, the hashish. And there is no irony in that statement. Illegal, but popular culture, the hashish is an essential resource for millions of citizens, men and women in large urban centers such as farmland and the desert.
"Fighting the crisis of hashish into Egypt" is the name of the group created on Facebook in April, following the rise of the coveted plants. Poor success of the initiative that has collected some thirty members for obvious reasons.
raked services Safety accumulated by drug dealers to increase its price or remained at the origin, where it is grown in the mountains of Sinai to transport difficulties, hashish has made headlines for weeks, without hypocrisy, even in the early evening. Amr Adib, anchorman of the Egyptian "Al Qahira Al Youm (Cairo Today), devoted an episode of its transmission to the complaints about the disappearance of hashish, while leaving the authorities with a anti-drugs campaign.
Meanwhile, as the audience focus on vegetables and soft drugs, the majority dissects the political opposition, religious and secular, and prepares to pass the scepter by President Hosni Mubarak to a new "Pharaoh". A strategy already used in 2005, before the polls, when the police was ruthless on gay citizens and tourists, who were arrested in Cairo for private parties or in public places.
why the gay community in Cairo is on the qui vive, "On the eve of the festival organized by quite a character in sight, a few weeks ago, it was a rumor that the secret services would raid," he told a Lettera43 invited to the prestigious party, "Since the period, the alarm has been taken seriously and the party canceled at the last moment."
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