Surging Food Prices and Global Stability.

• Autores: Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 298, Nº. 6, 2008, págs. 40-40
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article presents information on global food prices in the early 21st century, and the impact they are expected to have on global stability. The rise in average prices for commodities such as wheat, corn and rice are said to be a result of increasing demand by an expanding and upwardly mobile global population, combined with reduced production, particularly in the case of United States corn crops, a third of which have been diverted into the ethanol fuel industry.