Food Crisis in 2011?

By Donna Stokes

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: December 29, 2010

In a New York Times editorial, John Foley warns that too much money (i.e. governments printing more of it to help their economies recover) has the potential to cause a food crisis in 2011. Rising food prices make it even harder on those who already spend as much as half their income for meals.

He writes in the first paragraph:
Food prices globally are rising to dangerous levels. There is talk of a coming crisis, like the ones that produced riots around the world in 2008 and 1974. Many of the ingredients of a disaster are present, but governments can stop the problem before it causes too much damage.
For a look at how countries' economic and trade policies can affect the poor, read the rest of the article here.