I’m addressing graduates of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at 9:00 a.m. Information is here. It will be streamed online.
by Marion Nestle
Jan
20
2008
The end of cheap food?
Today’s Observer (London) lays out the causes and consequences of what’s happening to global food prices. Not pretty. The bleak forecast: price increases of 10% to 50% leading to “a war between the 850 million chronically hungry of the world and the 800 million motorists – all fighting for the same food crop.”