A couple weeks ago, I was asked to talk to give a talk to the students in the Sanford School’s Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program about my research.
Published February 14, 2011
Category: Agriculture
Published February 8, 2011
Did Rising Food Prices Cause Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt?
The Guardian had a really good article yesterday about the relationship between food prices and political instability, essentially concluding that rising food prices caused by crop shortages could lead to political instability.
On Mark Bittman’s Future Food Manifesto (Updated)
A few weeks ago, the New York Times‘ Mark Bittman wrote a column entitled “A Food Manifesto for the Future,” in which he offered his thoughts as to how to “make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging and more enduring.” Bittman’s suggestions are very much in line with the expectations and beliefs of the bien-pensant, as befits someone writing for the newspaper of record, but some of his suggestions were highly impractical.
I wanted to discuss his column earlier on but other more pressing events happened in terms of food policy which I chose to discuss first, and this has been a busy week, so my apologies for the lateness of these comments.
Among Bittman’s thoughts were: