World food prices have doubled or tripled over the past few years, with most of the increases happening in the last few months. A particularly depressing article by Paul Krugman in the New York Times looks at why this has happened, and what could be done to correct it (very little apparently). One of the reasons for the rise in prices, he says, is that the Chinese are eating more meat as they get richer, which puts more pressure on global stocks of foodgrains.
Read it here.
Read it here.
1 comment:
George,
Thanks for posting. The statistic in this that particularly struck me was:
"... it takes about 700 calories’ worth of animal feed to produce a 100-calorie piece of beef ..."
Another shocking statistic I read today is that the UN is saying that by the end of this year, for the first time in history, the number of urban dwellers (3.4 billion) will equal the number of rural dwellers.
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