Higher food prices are here to stay

Leaving out the political aspects of this issue is difficult but doable as long as the readers understand that politics have a lot to do with issues like this. Unilateral and coordinated planning can avert many of the issues the author of this source article presents. Technological advances in seeds and the resultant impact that can have on yields as well as land availability will also help. Farmer...

Nothing is more inflationary that increases in energy prices.  Everything depends on energy.  This means that virtually all material things have had to go up in price already, especially foods.  This means that biofuels have a triple whammy affecting them- first is the price of food going up even more because of resources being diverted to grow the biofuel corn have caused a market...

Forget the political aspects of potential food shortages brought upon by Bio fuel cropping. They do play a part in what is happening and in particular in the USA. However consider this when looking for reasons for such a drastic shift in cropping, Net farm income has been less than booming for the last 10 yrs, crop prices bounced around a median that without intervention and subsidy meant that many...