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:
Published June 20, 2011
Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
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:
From the Guardian:
“The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, leading to an unprecedented reversal in human development, Oxfam has warned. (…)