“I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant!”
Published March 31, 2011
Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
“I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant!”
A post on the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development’s (ICTSD) blog last week discussed a draft confidential report to the G-20 on food prices that was leaked:
“A confidential draft report from leading international agencies (…) aims to lay out ‘a blueprint for a systematic and internationally coordinated response’ to food price volatility in response to an explicit request from G-20 leaders at their November 2010 meeting in Seoul.”
The report, which can be found here, discusses price volatility as follows: