{"id":1727,"date":"2011-04-14T09:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2011-04-14T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:50:22","slug":"world-food-prize-laureates-on-food-prices-and-political-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1727","title":{"rendered":"World Food Prize Laureates on Food Prices and Political Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> ran an <a title=\"Food Prize Laureates Speak About Rising Costs, Tensions Worldwide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20110410\/BUSINESS01\/104100323\/Food-Prize-laureates-speak-about-rising-costs-tensions-worldwide\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in which they asked a few World Food Prize laureates to discuss food prices.<\/p>\n<p>As regards political unrest, 2003 World Food Prize laureate\u00a0Catherine Bertini said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;This is only the beginning.In 2008, over 30 countries had food riots \u2014 but those were in thecities, with people not as poor as most farmers, protesting the higherprices they have to pay. In many cases, the governments acted bycontrolling prices, which quieted some crowds, but made the poor farmers poorer. Yet there are almost a billion people, the vast majorityin rural areas, who cannot survive if they are much poorer. Some don\u2019t survive already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article is interesting throughout, as it pretty much encompasses all that one should know about why food prices fluctuate (e.g., climate change and policies encouraging biofuels production), and what the effects of those fluctuations are on the welfare of the poor. I am thinking of using that article as light reading when discussing food policy in my development seminar next fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Des Moines Register ran an article in which they asked a few World Food Prize laureates to discuss food prices. As regards&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1727\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Food Prize Laureates on Food Prices and Political Unrest<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55,26,12,44],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-economics","category-food","category-policy","category-politics","tag-food-prices","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-rR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}