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There's been a number of pieces that bread prices, or water, can be indicators of likely conflict. It's also revealing that so many regimes subsidise wheat pric
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
There's been a number of pieces that bread prices, or water, can be indicators of likely conflict. It's also revealing that so many regimes subsidise wheat prices.
Try this [0] Mother Jones piece on "Bread Prices, A Measure of Political Stability", or one from the Conversation [1].
There was a BBC documentary of 10 years ago. I can't remember the title so haven't found a web link.
[0] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/climate-change-food-crisis-price-bread-political-instability http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/climate-change-f...
[1] http://theconversation.com/food-security-how-drought-and-rising-prices-led-to-conflict-in-syria-71539 http://theconversation.com/food-security-how-drought-and-ris...