Brown says: An unprecedented period of world food security has come to an end. The world has lost its safety cushions and is living from year to year. This is the new politics of food scarcity. We are moving into a new food era, one in which it is every country for itself..
Dither is defined as a state of confusion or anxiety. An example of dither is the feeling a mother has when she doesn't know why her baby is sick; in a dither. verb. The definition of dither is to be confused.
Definition: A rhetorical term for a sentence style that employs many coordinating conjunctions (the opposite of asyndeton). Adjective: polysyndetic. (See Examples and Observations, below.). Despite their formidable names, polysyndeton and asyndeton are nothing more than different ways of handling a list or a series. Polysyndeton places a conjunction (and, or) after every term in the list (except, of course, the last).