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This doesn't address any other possible causes: * population growth * biofuels * climate change * increased demand for 'expensive' food such as meat
by colinhowe 15y ago
This doesn't address any other possible causes:
* population growth
* biofuels
* climate change
* increased demand for 'expensive' food such as meat
* corruption
* the effect of 'fair trade' on food prices
(fair trade wants them to go up so farmers get more)
Banks may be speculating that the prices are going to go up - but they will have reasons for this speculation. Once the price gets too high then banks will likely also start speculating that the price will go down.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoOnce the price gets too high then banks will likely also start speculating that the price will go down. When this occurs, we'll get poorly researched articles talking about how banks are hurting poor rural farmers.