Has the Food Crisis Abated?: A Q&A with Joachim von Braun, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute

Monday, December 15, 2008 - 17:07 in Mathematics & Economics

The price of staple foods--wheat, rice, corn--more than doubled over the course of the last year. Food riots swept poorer nations from Bangladesh to Haiti, and some countries, such as India and Vietnam, imposed limits on crop exports. [More]

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