Could High Food Prices Be a Blessing in Disguise?

Published on 27 January 2012

“You can look at hunger as a Malthusian nightmare, or you can look it as a tremendous opportunity because everyone has to eat,” says Josette Sheeran, executive director of the WFP (..) Describing the soaring prices of 2008-2009 as the “perfect storm,” Ms. Sheeran says food security was a wake-up call for world leaders. (..) “If you don’t have food, you have three choices — you can revolt, you can migrate or you can die. It’s very important that world has a backup plan for those three things.

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