Endless appetites
Subtitle: how the commodities casino creates hunger and unrest
By: Alan Bjerga
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Bloomberg -- 151
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118043233
Subjects: Food prices; Food security; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance
Description: "How to understand the twenty-first century food crisisSince 2007, farm-product prices have gone crazy, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how "food security," the availability of food and the reasonable ability to buy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time. With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more and more pressing, proven by this year's record increase in food prices, which has already topped the spike of 2008.  Award-winning commodities reporter Alan Bjerga explains the food crisis and why it is happening in an accessible, articulate manner  Why is this happening when more food is being grown than ever?  Why are crop markets--first established in the 1800's to help stabilize agricultural commodity prices--acting like an investors' casino, with prices absorbed by rich nations taking food from the mouths of the poor?  From college campuses to emergency UN meetings, "food security" is one of the hottest topics of the day, with no shortage of interest in how to stabilize food prices worldwide to close the hunger gap  To understand the growing international food crisis, readers need an expert they can rely on. One of the most widely acclaimed journalists on food security, Alan Bjerga is up to the task, taking readers from the trading floor of Chicago to the highlands of East Africa to the rice paddies of Thailand on a global trek to find the causes of the food-price crisis--and the solutions"--
Notes: Includes index.