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Real causes of the 2007-2008 food crisis : Comments

By Shenggen Fan and Derek Headey, published 26/11/2010

In the end it was not the obvious suspects who caused the last food crisis.

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Well, PeterA, off you toddle and do the right thing to make oil last longer ... ohhhhh, I see ... you just want there to be less of *other* people.
Posted by Clownfish, Sunday, 28 November 2010 9:34:03 PM
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Blaming biofuels for the crisis is a little like loading a racing camel
with 2 x 200 kilo beef carcases ... 1 on each side and then blaming
the 50 kilo female jockey as she mounts and the camel collapses.
The growing conversion of food to feed both directly by feeding
food to livestock and indirectly by making it more profitable to
grow feed than food leaves the global food supply stretched taught
like a drum and biofuels or regional crop failures provides the
trigger. This article makes IFPRI look like just another meat
industry front group.
Posted by Geoff Russell, Monday, 29 November 2010 11:43:53 AM
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..The effect of oil prices on food prices during 2007 and 2008 is not
news. The diversion of maize to ethanol had a very significant effect.
That it occurred when drought was on a number of continents just made
matters worse.
If anyone has doubts about the relationship of population to oil production
just plot them both from 1850 to date. Cheap oil has fed the world but
cheap oil is over and the population must fall with it.

It was more expensive petrol and food prices that stopped people paying
their mortgages in the US that triggered the financial crash.

China is well aware of the two horseman, food and oil which is why
China is buying up all the oil and farmland it can get in Africa and
Australia.
With our governments "Big Australia" we will need control of our own
farmland and not just be hungary workers loading Chinese ships with
the food we may well need ourselves.
Posted by Bazz, Monday, 29 November 2010 1:46:51 PM
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