Can Egypt bread subsidies continue in their present form?

The price of cereals and bread in Egypt has leapt by nearly 50 percent over the past 12 months, official figures showed on Saturday as the Arab world’s most populous nation faced a wave of protests.
In the year to March, the price of both cereals and bread rose by 48.1 percent, said the director [...]

‘Make trade fair’

Rising food prices have caused street protests from Mexico to India to Senegal. But this could be a blessing in disguise if it makes governments eliminate the trade barriers that exacerbate high prices. It is the poorest countries that will benefit most from dropping their own tariffs.
Nobel economics laureate Gary Becker estimates that a 30 [...]

Food crisis from climate change?

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Water the focus for farmers

Herald Sun
The group considering the future of rural Australia said climate change would have a significant negative impact on the country’s primary industries, and called for incentives to improve water efficiency, and better use of water resources in Australia’s north.
Other ideas from the rural stream included a national rural education program, minimisation of public liability [...]

Exposed: the great GM crops myth

Independent
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
 
The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that [...]

Venezuela’s Chavez says governments will be forced to confront food crisis

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that the world’s governments will need to do more to confront a global food crisis.
The socialist leader noted that organizations from the World Bank to the United Nations are expressing concerns about rising food prices that are squeezing the poor and have led to protests in some countries.
“The entire [...]

A Worsening Food Crisis

Washington Post
THE WORLD’S most dangerous conflicts stem from religion and ideology — tragic proof that man does not live by bread alone. But when bread is hard to get, that, too, causes unrest. And lately, it has been very expensive indeed: The World Bank estimates that global food prices have risen 83 percent in the [...]