Colombian rice imports are set to rise above last year’s record volumes. As 2015 wound down, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a decree that 200,000 metric tons of imported rice will be needed to maintain adequate supplies in the coming year. Colombia is one of the...
Latest spike is a variation on the pattern set in 2002 A steady downward trend in global food prices in 1980-2002 has given way to sharp rises and falls. A report from the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (ERS) looks for answers to the question...
Sorting out possible causes as yet another global food crisis looms The world’s poorest are at risk of being priced out of the market for food because … we’re burning corn and other staple crops for biofuel … the rising middle classes in the BRICs and beyond are...
