According to this new paper of mine titled “Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Political Unrest,” the answer is a qualified yes:
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Jun 11
Do Food Prices Cause Political Unrest?
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Jun 11
G-20 All Talk, No Action on Food Prices
An editorial in this morning’s New York Times:
“It is disappointing that the agriculture ministers from the 20 large industrial economies who gathered last week in Paris failed to end two policies that are a big part of the problem: bans on agricultural exports by certain producers and government supports for food-based biofuel production. Continue reading →
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Jun 11
Food Prices: Data and Forecast in The Guardian
Tom Murphy – whose Twitter feed is perhaps the feed to follow if you have an interest in development policy — tweeted last week about a post about food prices on the Guardian‘s Datablog: Continue reading →
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Jun 11
Food Prices Over the Last Ten Years
There was a very nice infographic in the Guardian last week showing the evolution of food prices by food group — meat, dairy, cereals, oils and fats, and sugar — over the last ten years.
By the way, this is the same data I have been using for the paper I am writing on the relationship between food prices and political unrest.
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Jun 11
Food Price Inflation: Heterogeneity or Measurement Error?
The Economist‘s Daily Chart blog had a post yesterday was about food price inflation. The point of the post was to illustrate how food price inflation over the last year had not affected all countries equally. To wit: Continue reading →