Bjerga Endless Appetites

How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-16961-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Bloomberg

How to understand the twenty-first century food crisis
Since 2007, farm-product prices have rocketed and plunged,causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheavalaround the world. Endless Appetites explores how "foodsecurity," the availability of food and the reasonable ability tobuy it, has become one of the most challenging topics of our time.With every jump in grocery-store prices, the issue becomes more andmore pressing, proven by this year's record increase in foodprices, which has already topped the spike of 2008.
* Award-winning commodities reporter Alan Bjerga explains thefood crisis and why it is happening in an accessible, articulatemanner
* Why is this happening when more food is being grown thanever?
* Why are crop markets?first established in the 1800's to helpstabilize agricultural commodity prices?acting like an investors'casino, with prices absorbed by rich nations taking food from themouths of the poor?
* From college campuses to emergency UN meetings, "food security"is one of the hottest topics of the day, with no shortage ofinterest in how to stabilize food prices worldwide to close thehunger gap
To understand the growing international food crisis, readersneed an expert they can rely on. One of the most widely acclaimedjournalists on food security, Alan Bjerga is up to the task, takingreaders from the trading floor of Chicago to the highlands of EastAfrica to the rice paddies of Thailand on a global trek to find thecauses of the food-price crisis?and the solutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bjerga, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note viii
Prologue xi
CHAPTER 1: Floors, Fields, and Famines 1
CHAPTER 2: Chicago Makes a Market 13
CHAPTER 3: Elephants in the Kiddie Pool 25
CHAPTER 4: A Recipe for Famine 39
CHAPTER 5: The View from Rome 51
CHAPTER 6: Hot Air 65
CHAPTER 7: Promise 79
CHAPTER 8: The Price of a Cup of Coffee 97
CHAPTER 9: A Better Banana 113
CHAPTER 10: Thai Quality 131
CHAPTER 11: Steps Up 147
CHAPTER 12: Harvest of Hope 159
Notes 169
Acknowledgments 189
About the Author 191
Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Bjerga has covered food and agricultural issues for more than a decade for Knight-Ridder Newspapers and Bloomberg News. He won the Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year Award from the North American Agricultural Journalists in 2005. In 2009, he was recognized for covering U.S. food aid and famine in Ethiopia by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the North American Agricultural Journalists, the New York Press Club, and the Overseas Press Club. In 2010, Bjerga was President of the National Press Club and the North American Agricultural Journalists.