Food prices globally are rising to dangerous levels. There is talk of a coming crisis, like the ones that produced riots around the world in 2008 and 1974. Many of the ingredients of a disaster are present, but governments can stop the problem before it causes too much damage. A warning sign is the price [...]
Orange-juice futures dropped the most in almost two weeks on signs that damage to citrus groves in Florida, the world’s second-biggest grower, was less severe than expected. Cotton, cocoa and coffee climbed. Florida’s orange crop probably didn’t suffer any “significant” damage from overnight temperatures that dropped to the freezing point in Orlando and Tampa, Jim [...]
A food relief program was expected to resume soon in the northwestern tribal region of Bajaur, where a suicide bomber killed 46 people outside a World Food Program center on Saturday, according to officials. “We have ceased operations in Bajaur for practical reasons,” Mageed Yahia, the deputy country director for the World Food Program in [...]
