London summit tackles rising food prices

Wednesday 23rd April, 08:56 AM JST

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MPLS2 at 06:42 PM JST - 23rd April

The fault of 4 sources, OPEC, the oil refinery industry of any country, government tax on petrol/gasoline in any country, and lastly the biofuel (E85) growng countrie/organisations.
tclh at 09:53 PM JST - 23rd April

there is more...Indian and chinese people have higher incomes and they eat more meat,more food; plus possibility of global investors bought and store their commodities(rice,corn,wheat...)somwhere thus creating artificial shortage.
SuperLib at 05:28 AM JST - 24th April

Something just isn't adding up, but I haven't really researched anything. Aren't some Western governments paying subsidies to farmers? Don't some farmers actually get money as an incentive to not grow certain crops because the prices are too low?

And now we have a shortage of cheap food? How did the pendulum swing so far in the other direction so fast? Or are we not getting the whole story?
SuperLib at 05:33 AM JST - 24th April

I guess I could have just looked first... :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_shortage