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Since 2007, farm-product prices have gone crazy, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how "food security," the availability of food and the reasonable ability to buy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time. With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more and more pressing, proven by this year's record increase in food prices, which has already topped the spike of 2008.
To understand the growing international food crisis, readers need an expert they can rely on. One of the most widely acclaimed journalists on food security, Alan Bjerga is up to the task, taking readers from the trading floor of Chicago to the highlands of East Africa to the rice paddies of Thailand on a global trek to find the causes of the food-price crisis—and the solutions.
Chapter 1: Of Floors, Fields, and Famines
Chapter 2: Chicago Makes a Market
Chapter 3: Elephants in the Kiddie Pool
Chapter 4: A Recipe for Famine
Chapter 5: The View from Rome
Chapter 6: Hot Air
Chapter 7: Promise
Chapter 8: The Price of a Cup of Coffee
Chapter 9: A Better Banana
Chapter 10: Thai Quality
Chapter 11: Steps Up
Chapter 12: Harvest of Hope
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
Overview
Since 2007, farm-product prices have gone crazy, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how "food security," the availability of food and the reasonable ability to buy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time. With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more and more pressing, proven by...