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On the rising price of cooking oil, the slum dwellers Asia's largest, Mumbai, India, are forced to ration every drop.
The scarcity and high price of palm oil, soybean oil and other vegetable oils are an example of a growing global problem, the rising food prices.
The food price index of the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture, FAO, based on export prices of sixty food, increased by 37 percent last year and had already increased 14 in 2006. Since September, the trend accelerated.
According to the organization in recent months, food riots erupted in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Uzbekistan and Yemen. No food increase this semester, as fast as the so-called edible oils.
In Western cooking oil may seem a trivial expense, but in the developing world is an important source of calories and represents one of the major expenses of poor families, which grow some of their own food, but they have buy oil for cooking.
In Malaysia, workers pick the fruit of the palms, but the oil obtained from such fruit prices rose 70 percent in 2007.
In Mumbai, 250 mm people buy palm oil for food for his family for 41 cents.
The worst victims of the rise in food prices in urban areas are poorer Asian countries with lower incomes.
The reaction of some families living in slum areas of Mumbai, consisting of six to nine members, of which only one works, was eating fish once a week instead of two, cooking a few vegetables and reduce consumption of rice.
In 2007 the conversion of palm oil fuel is a huge growth in demand, but in recent weeks the price increase affected the sector. On the coast of Malaysia refinery has the capacity to make 105,000 metric tons of palm per year by 100,000 metric tons of a fuel called biodiesel, as well as valuable byproducts like glycerin.
Mission Biofuels, an Australian company, finished the refinery in December.
But prices rose as the company can not cover costs and decided to stop work while searching for a new strategy.
Almost half the increase in world demand for vegetable oils last year, was for biofuels, and accounted for seven percent of total oil consumption, according to Oil World, a forecasting service in Hamburg, Germany.

The development of biodiesel was and is controversial, not only because it competes with the use of oil la alimentación, sino también por las consecuencias ambientales.
La advertencia de que se están talando selvas para crear plantaciones de palmas de aceite que destruyen el hábitat de orangutanes y rinocerontes de Sumatra y liberan gases de efecto invernadero, viene de hace tiempo y es reforzada en la actualidad por grupos conservacionistas europeos. Pero al parecer, las grandes potencias mundiales parecen darle más importancia a los negociados y no al medio ambiente y a la creciente y hambrienta población mundial.

Santiago García Cancio
Informes: Andrew Martin
Michael Rubenstein
New York Times