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by Marion Nestle
Jan
13
2009
World food crisis: causes and effects
More reading catch up: the November 2008 issue of the journal, Agricultural Economics, has a collection of academic analyses of the causes and effects of rising food prices. These authors blame the world food crisis on weak monetary policies, demand for food as biofuel, and restrictive trade policies. Others may disagree but whatever the causes, the consequences are unlikely to be good.