{"id":5107,"date":"2011-12-16T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2011-12-15T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T12:21:47","slug":"food-prices-helped-trigger-the-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/5107","title":{"rendered":"Food Prices Helped Trigger the Arab Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it looks like I am no longer the one saying it: the following VOA news clip features both International Food Policy Research Institute director-general Shenggen Fan as well as my coauthor Chris Barrett:<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>For more in-depth reading on this topic, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barrett, Christopher B. and Marc F. Bellemare (2011), &#8220;<a title=\"Barrett and Bellemare (FA, 2011)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/67981\/christopher-b-barrett-and-marc-f-bellemare\/why-food-price-volatility-doesnt-matter\" target=\"_blank\">Why Food Price Volatility Doesn&#8217;t Matter<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, July 12.<\/li>\n<li>Bellemare, Marc F. (2011), &#8220;<a title=\"Bellemare (2011)\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BellemareFoodPricesAugust2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Political Unrest<\/a>,&#8221; Working Paper, Duke University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(HT: Chris Barrett, via Facebook.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it looks like I am no longer the one saying it: the following VOA news clip features both International Food Policy Research Institute director-general&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/5107\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Food Prices Helped Trigger the Arab Spring<\/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":[18,58,16,55,26,12,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-biofuels","category-development","category-economics","category-food","category-policy","category-social-unrest","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1kn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","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=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}