http://libcom.org/tags/food-riots The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://libcom.org/news/a-world-food-crisis-empty-rice-bowls-fat-rats-16042008 <p>In the Chittagong hill tracts of rural south-eastern Bangladesh the bamboo is in bloom - and the local poor are hungry and facing famine. Bamboo blooms and seeds itself roughly once every 50 years; the rats love the seeds, and their high protein content causes them to breed four times faster than normal.</p> <p><a href="http://libcom.org/news/a-world-food-crisis-empty-rice-bowls-fat-rats-16042008">read more</a></p> http://libcom.org/news/a-world-food-crisis-empty-rice-bowls-fat-rats-16042008#comments agriculture Bangladesh food food riots Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:19:20 +0000 Ret Marut 20726 at http://libcom.org http://libcom.org/library/1918-rice-riots-strikes-japan <p>1905-1918 in Japan was called the Era of Popular Violence (民衆騒擾期, minshû sôjô ki). This began with the Hibiya Incendiary Incident (日比谷焼討事件, Hibiya Yakiuchi Jiken) - a citywide riot in Tokyo that started with a banned protest in Hibiya park; against the terms of the Portsmouth Treaty which ended the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.</p> <p><a href="http://libcom.org/library/1918-rice-riots-strikes-japan">read more</a></p> http://libcom.org/library/1918-rice-riots-strikes-japan#comments Asia Japan manufacturing and materials mining retail and food 1910s food riots Mitsubishi revolutionary wave c.1905-1927 riots strikes uprisings 36.766392 137.338715 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:46:11 +0000 catch 17281 at http://libcom.org