June 27, 2008
The Real Food Crisis
The true threats are local, not global
Is the world really facing a food crisis? Export prices of basic food grains — corn, rice, and wheat — have certainly spiked upward this year, indicating a scarcity of exportable supplies relative to commercial demand. Yet export prices on the world market are an imprecise measure of actual human hardship, since the world's poorest and most vulnerable citizens do not have regular access to world food markets. Instead those
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