World’s Food cost alarm

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This is an English essay which was assigned last 2 months .It about finding 2 articles of some different local newspapers which write about the same objective. Then, find out the commons and differences between them. I got 5/5 for the Organization, but only 4/5 for each clarity, analysis, and English. Honestly, I did not spend enough time on it, and did not expect being well-graded, but i really want to know what mistakes I did and how should I do to make this essay better. I would be happy if I could have some comment from you.
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World’s Food cost alarm

The World is struggling with the worst food inflation in many years, and analysts expect that it's getting worse and worse. Although Japan has a large amount of stockpile of rice and probably wealthy enough to not struggle, many foreign articles have sound an alarm across Asia. Those articles, however, slightly vary from countries to countries and indicating the differences as well as the commons between them is the major of this essay.

The BBC times and the Herald Tribune both claimed that it was a pretty complicated thing to deal since it would be the base for much crisis to spawn if it became serious. "If the inflation problem gets out of hand, it could have devastating implications for not only economic but also political stability," said Yiping Huang, an economist with Citigroup in Hong Kong. The inflation is, firstly, putting the squeeze on poor countries, especially countries that have to import a huge amount of food every year such as Bangladesh, Philippines, and Afghanistan. The food producer countries and the importer countries` reactions is also the major parts in both articles. Most of rice producer countries have totally banned or restricted exporting for domestic demand, while many importing countries have been put in danger for being shortage. To many developing countries that importing a large amount of rice, it would be a devastating combo for starving will also lead anti-government protest and chaotic social.

The BCC, however, focus on the affection of rice rise, the governments opinion and intention to deal with it. They also have some more detail investigating about it, such as the top 10 countries receiving rice aid, how many tones of stockpiled rice the governments release to contain inflation, rice production and consumption, etc. The article is also including chart inside. In the other way, the Herald Tribune issue a general view about the whole food rise problem in which rice included. However of the lack of chart and detailing, they include many economists` opinions and the overall view of the current situation as well as the future.

The devastating increasing of food prices leads inflation, protest and brings the stock in danger. There are many Asia countries have been suffering until now and according to experienced economists we still could not long for the brighter situation soon.
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