That is simply not true! See Zimbabwe. Not long ago they were a huge exporter of food, the "breadbasket of Africa" everyone called them. Now look at them. Mugabe has brought them to ruin.
Sure, Zimbabwe is a total disaster, but the current food crisis is world-wide: in Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Haiti, the Philippines, Egypt. etc. The price of rice has almost tripled in less than two years.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cf...
Re:The Hydrogen Hoax
by richcollins on Monday July 28, 2008 @01:54AM
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Not debasing the currency is a start.
Moving from growing food to growing biofuels is necessarily going to influence the price of food - basically the prices of oil and of food staples are going to move in tandem. And we should be very careful before we commit one fifth of arable land to biofuels.
Ultimately this food crisis is caused by poverty, and there's no easy cure for that.