Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
As regular readers of this blog know, many of my posts are about the impacts of rising food prices and food price volatility.
As it turns out that rising food prices really do hurt some people more than others:
I spent all day yesterday looking at the relationship between natural disasters and food prices for a new paper I am working on. This led me to wonder about the impacts of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last Friday on food prices.
Misleading and Mistaken Claims About Food Prices in the HuffPo
Knowing how a very small fraction of the actual price we pay for food in this country is actually due to the cost of food itself, I was intrigued by a HuffPo article this week with the somewhat sensationalist title of “Rising Food Prices Intensify Poverty, Hunger In US And World,” which began as follows: