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The myth of the rising cost of food

Post Date: Mar 22, 2008 8:27 a.m.
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The BBC has a feature on “ the cost of food “. It shows how almost all types of food are getting more and more expensive. Drastically so! What is happening here? Shouldn’t modern high-tech farming with its nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and specially breed (and often genetically modified) high-yield crop varieties allow humanity to easy feed everyone on the planet? Hasn’t Norman Borlaug ’s Green Revolution dramatically increased the amount of food the world can produce (e.g. doubling wheat yield between 1965 and 1970)? Haven’t exports of food increased by 400% over the last 40 years, promoting the distribution of foods from countries with lots of farmland to those without the capacity to grow lots of food? The news reporters give two possible explanations of the rising cost of food (both bogus): The world population is increasing . Soon 6 billion people now live on the planet and the number is expected to rise...

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