No more cheap food
Biofuel Mania Ends Days Of Cheap Food
By Gwynne Dyer
07/16/07 “NZHerald” –The era of cheap food is over. The price of maize has doubled in a year, and wheat futures are at their highest in a decade. The food price index in India has risen 11 per cent in one year, and in Mexico in January there were riots after the price of corn flour – used in making the staple food of the poor, tortillas – went up fourfold.
The era of cheap food is over. The price of maize has doubled in a year, and wheat futures are at their highest in a decade. The food price index in India has risen 11 per cent in one year, and in Mexico in January there were riots after the price of corn flour – used in making the staple food of the poor, tortillas – went up fourfold.
Even in the developed countries food prices are going up, and they are not going to come down again. Cheap food lasted for only 50 years.</em>
