Lester Brown of Earth Policy Institute has written a new assessment of the global food situation. No stranger to food security, Brown has his life to the study of the relationship between population, climate, water, air, energy, land, and the amount of food in the world can grow and eat. Raised on a farm in New Jersey, he studied agriculture at the University and founded and for many years led the World watch Institute after he began his career in the Foreign Agricultural Service of USDA. 15. February wrote: “… Is it increased food prices will continue in the coming months? Most likely we will continue to increase what the world into new territory in the relationship between food prices and see policy stability.
Now everything depends on the harvest this year. The reduction in food prices in a comfortable, it will be a bumper grain, much higher than the record harvest of 2008, which stopped taking the economic crisis along the escalation of grain, prices 2007-08 one. ”If the world is a bad harvest this year, food prices unimaginable to a level increase. Multiply unrest, political instability and government extends this fall. The world is now a bad harvest away from the chaos in world grain markets …” In a telephone conversation with me, Brown explore more opportunities for farmers around the world enough grain this year to reduce prices or increase growth just to keep grain prices further.