Food riots spreading across the globe

As the price of staple foods like rice and wheat soars out of reach of millions of people, violent protests have erupted in dozens of cities.
In Haiti (pictured), four people have been killed in rioting which threatens the country's fragile political stability. UN peacekeepers are struggling to restore calm but with food prices up 40% since last summer, people living on less than $2 a day have grown desperate.
There have also been demonstrations in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mauritania, Mozambique, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Bolivia and Indonesia.
The World Food Programme is running out of food and money, while the World Bank says the prices of all staple foods are up around 80% in three years. Eighty percent.
Despite all of this, coverage in Western media has been relatively thin.
The same goes for Chinese media, although they must be fearful that Asian countries could soon find themselves on that list of food riot hot spots.