On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:49 AM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
in many parts of Asia to protect local farmers, due to the very high
efficiency of American rice production, and consequently it is not worth it
for American rice farmers to bother with the Asian export business.
Isn't that efficiency +
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:24:41AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
In Australia a struggling farmer watches another harvest shrivel under
the country's worst drought on record.
Maybe people should look at the geological climate record for
Australia. The continent is chronically drought-ridden,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080528-food-crisis.html
Perfect Storm in Food Prices Caused by Many Factors
Aalok Mehta
National Geographic News
May 28, 2008
Part one of a special series that explores the local faces of the
world's worst food crisis in decades.
In Australia a
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And a U.S. agricultural executive decides to grow corn instead of
wheat to take advantage of the growing demand for biofuels.
I read, somewhere, that one mistake was in linking the price of a
staple food commodity to
On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Gautam John wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
And a U.S. agricultural executive decides to grow corn instead of
wheat to take advantage of the growing demand for biofuels.
I read, somewhere, that one mistake was
