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Food Crisis (2008)

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The Food Crisis

Specualtion, Malthusian constraints, weather and bio-fuels. What should we do?

A question to Martin Wolf and Paul Collier on the world's food crisis: can we all be both vegetarian and libertarian?
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
The violent protests in Haiti against rising food prices expose its deeper political predicament
A worldwide increase in the price of basic foods is provoking anger and despair in many of the world's poor countries
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