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Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest
Contributor(s): Bjerga, Alan (Author)
ISBN: 1118043235     ISBN-13: 9781118043233
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
OUR PRICE:   $25.16  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food
- Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - Commodities - General
- Business & Economics | Finance - General
Dewey: 363.8
LCCN: 2011029936
Series: Bloomberg (Numbered)
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.41" W x 9.17" (0.92 lbs) 208 pages
 
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How to understand the twenty-first century food crisis

Since 2007, farm-product prices have rocketed and plunged, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how food security, the availability of food and the reasonable ability to buy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time. With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more and more pressing, proven by this year's record increase in food prices, which has already topped the spike of 2008.

  • Award-winning commodities reporter Alan Bjerga explains the food crisis and why it is happening in an accessible, articulate manner
  • Why is this happening when more food is being grown than ever?
  • Why are crop markets?first established in the 1800's to help stabilize agricultural commodity prices?acting like an investors' casino, with prices absorbed by rich nations taking food from the mouths of the poor?
  • From college campuses to emergency UN meetings, food security is one of the hottest topics of the day, with no shortage of interest in how to stabilize food prices worldwide to close the hunger gap

To understand the growing international food crisis, readers need an expert they can rely on. One of the most widely acclaimed journalists on food security, Alan Bjerga is up to the task, taking readers from the trading floor of Chicago to the highlands of East Africa to the rice paddies of Thailand on a global trek to find the causes of the food-price crisis?and the solutions.