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Geo Politics

The Geopolitics of the Global Food crisis
Adnan Khan, Wednesday, 10 September 2008.

In April 2008 global food commodity prices skyrocketed around the world, the price of food led to riots around the world from Haiti to Egypt. What was most shocking was how quickly food prices soared, the World Bank reported that global food prices rose 83% over the last three years and the FAO cites a 45% increase in their world food price index during just the past nine months. The Economist’s comparable index stands at its highest point since it was originally formulated in 1845. As of March 2008, average world wheat prices were 130% above their level a year earlier, soy prices were 87% higher, rice had climbed 74%, and maize was up 31%.
Although their are some specific factors that led to the price hike; their still remain a number of underlying trends that have been taking shape for the last three decades and are fundamental to the current crisis and a future crisis. The protests around......


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