Last updated on December 15, 2011
And it looks like I am no longer the one saying it: the following VOA news clip features both International Food Policy Research Institute director-general Shenggen Fan as well as my coauthor Chris Barrett:
For more in-depth reading on this topic, see:
- Barrett, Christopher B. and Marc F. Bellemare (2011), “Why Food Price Volatility Doesn’t Matter,” Foreign Affairs, July 12.
- Bellemare, Marc F. (2011), “Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Political Unrest,” Working Paper, Duke University.
(HT: Chris Barrett, via Facebook.)