And civil strife and conflict, sometimes brief, sometimes sustained, mar nearly every region in the world.

These can range from natural disasters to health pandemics, wars and civil strife, oil and food price shocks, regional and global economic crises.

And hot spots of civil strife and conflict, sometimes brief, sometimes sustained, mar nearly every region in the world.

The army is/are threatening to take over if civil unrest continues.

Because food markets are in turmoil, civil strife is growing; and because trade and openness itself could be undermined, the food crisis of 2008 may become a challenge to globalisation.