World must brace for higher food prices

by AFP

Opinions Aug. 21, 2012 - 06:51AM JST ( 5 )

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Jack SternAug. 21, 2012 - 10:03AM JST

For a second, I thought that corn picture was an alien with horrible teeth.
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SpankiAug. 21, 2012 - 12:29PM JST

haha Jack, for a second I thought it was a cicada
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malfupeteAug. 21, 2012 - 10:45PM JST

Thats okay, as long as our wages keep in line with food inflation... oh wait
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NeverSubmitAug. 22, 2012 - 07:17AM JST

20 years ago the biggest problem in the agriculture was overproduction. Countries like Canada were dumping grain into the ocean to keep prices high and even today in many major European countries like France farmers are paid not to plant in order to keep prices above a certain level.

There's plenty of underused and unused arable land available, we just need better management.
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JapanGalAug. 23, 2012 - 03:39PM JST

NeverSubmit: Same here in Japan as far as not using the land to grow. Many many plots empty.