but there are good har vests, like in ma malawi, and this has helped to mitigate it impact. but in central asia, we have a problem. the price of wheat is up 54% from a few months ago. bangladesh, up 45%. you know, so in many parts, central asia has been hard hit. >> americans sitting home hearing all of this are wondering what can or should be done about all of this? if it is weather, do you just wait for better weather? if it is policy, what policies need to change? >> that's one thing. and bob zellick, the president of the world bank has really spoken about this first. it sometimes happened there is no food shortage worldwide. some countries have a surplus where other countries have a deficit. but we don't have information on stocks. often it is not transparent -- we don't know who has what and who doesn't have. so if we can get more transparency on food stocks, we can can move the food. two, we can cushion the vulnerability. and three, we have to help farmers with seed and fertilizers, to help them improve their productivity and in the long-term, we need to invest more in

markets with regards to your issue about countries being vulnerable i'll give you a case in point malawi in the around two thousand and one two thousand and two is facing severe food crises and they've had constant food prices for many years there's no doubting that there are fundamental problems in them allowing market they were encouraged by the world bank and the i.m.f. to drop subsidies for local farmers to produce for export and they became incredibly vulnerable and much more vulnerable to famine finally in two thousand and five two thousand and six they said never mind we're not going to do that anymore you know after this was after things like corn prices shot up by four hundred percent they said we're going to subsidize our local farmers and we're going to prioritize local food production and that meant when the price crisis of two thousand and seven two thousand and eight came around they were vulnerable anymore to these rising commodity prices and in fact were able not only to feed their own population but those in the surrounding area there is a problem with reducing deregulat

people were going to win this is a revolution that as one prominent egyptian blogger hope somehow malawi has noted does not have a leader that's one of the really exciting aspects of this revolution is that this is something that came from the ground up and at this point none of those parties not the. the muslim brotherhood or any of the others can claim credit for it and the people know this. and they initially put their weight behind mohamed el baradei but now it appears there's a split even within the muslim brotherhood about whether whether that would be the case and the reason they put their weight behind him is because mohamed el baradei had said that were he to some sort of coalition government that they would be allowed to participate in elections frankly you know it shouldn't be a threat for a group that is religiously identified to participate in democratic elections if democracy really is what we care about democracy should mean that everybody should do we think that the muslim brotherhood really doesn't want to themselves participating they have been banned from participating

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and the only person who did not get that was the person from malawi who got $75,000. she was paying everybody off everywhere. throughout his career, he influenced with a mix of terrorism, disinformation, money, of course, and internal affairs of no less than 40 countries. host: "the new york times" as saying that the obama administration needed to do more. this morning, "the weekly standard", obama squeeks up. he has been silent on the issue. guest: i hope we do not involved militarily in libya. i think it was a secretary gacy said anyone whoanted to do a foreign intervention and a country -- secretary gates who do a that they wanted to affo forward intervention would be crazy. it can be done. covert action can be done. it is wide open for anyone that wants to get involved. the u.s. navy can be offshore. there will be lots of refugees coming out of different parts of libya. the air force can have a no-fly zone much the way we had over iraq for 10 years. host: from connecticut. good morning to you. steve, good morning. caller: nato and the europeans have to take the le

i was in malawi last year. it's one of the poorest countries in africa. they are working on the m d g. four about childhood death by getting up these front-line health workers who take messages out to women. ethiopia is to in the same thing, in the highest in the same thing and here's what makes a difference. we have to take those 8.1 million deaths and really break it down. 40% of the deaths are in the first 28 days of life. what you tell the women about the first 28 days is slightly different than you taller ones that beebee cross t's 28 days to 5-years-old. so the first 28 days of life you say to her what margaret just said, through the front line health worker the media, the immediate and exclusive breast-feeding even if it's hot outside your baby will get enough nutrition by being breastfed and keep that baby warm. we can reduce the first 28 days of life, we can reduce those by summer between 20% and 50%. so that's the first 28 days with front line health workers. the front line health workers then also talk about the vaccination peace which is the p