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What’s driving current food prices?

New Scientist interviewed food policy researchers Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun from IFPRI about current rise in food prices and they blame financialization of commodity markets: Is this another crisis like the one we had in 2008? Not quite. … Continue reading

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Food prices rising due increases in meat consumption and biofuels

The Economist (Dec 6th 2007) writes about how global agricultural prices are Cheap no more: …what is most remarkable about the present bout of “agflation” is that record prices are being achieved at a time not of scarcity but of … Continue reading

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