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2008 Food Price Hike
- https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1246661746397310976
- Used by the Gates Foundation, CGIAR, and FAO to make a new push, sending Africans to the Philippines to leanr how to grow wet paddy rice
- Price hike likely caused by a mix of commodities speculation and turning crops into biofuels
- comparative advantage is why food self-sufficiency wasn’t a problem, more profits from growing coconuts than rice in some countries
- palm oil in Indonesia
- flowers in Kenya
2020 covid crisis
- http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/
- FAO thinks food price is falling
- biofuel demand has collapsed with oil prices
- food export bans: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-04-02/multiple-countries-ban-food-exports-as-demand-spikes-fuel-shortage-fears-101538002.html
- syria needs 650k tons of wheat
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html