Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest Contributor(s): Bjerga, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1118043235 ISBN-13: 9781118043233 Publisher: Bloomberg Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
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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Publisher Description: 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.
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. |