“If you can tell your story with a graph or picture, do so,” says Marc Bellemare, my first guest in this episode. The picture on the left is one of his: “a graph that essentially tells you the whole story in one simple, self-explanatory picture.” Yes indeed, social unrest is caused by higher food prices. […]
For much of the world, food has never been as abundant or as inexpensive as it is now, but at what cost?
Size and market concentration lock farmers onto a technological treadmill that does nobody any good, excpet for the giant corporations and their shareholders
“Is it because of high prices? Is it because of low incomes? Or is it because … you can’t see, taste, or smell the nutritional composition of food?”
Yesterday’s graph from USDA is really interesting. It shows that the February 2022 recall of formula milk in the US, which compounded the supply chain difficulties of Covid, was associated with a striking increase in the number of infants fully and partially breastfed (and a drop in the number fully formula fed). The survey covers […]
When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose … except your life
A chicken has two wings, two legs, two breasts; how does the market cope when all people want is wings?
The price of subsidised bread in Egypt has not changed in decades, though the bread shrunk. That remains a huge challenge to security, for the government and the people.
Speculators can actually drive prices higher, which was news to me
Someone decided it would be a good idea to defraud customers by diluting ground cumin with peanut shells
