Reasons for Food Price Rise

Paul Krugman on droughts, floods, speculation and their impact on food prices. Its heartening to see a focus on climate change and agriculture (and thereby food prices), a point not made often enough. On speculation: I feel that it will have a significant impact on the determination of food prices precisely because physical stocks will be impacted negatively by climate change.

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