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| University of Guelph President Alastair Summerlee's Blog ... |
Friday, July 25, 2008 --- 26 days ago http://www.uoguelph.ca/president/blog/2008/07/rising_food_prices.php
| Every day, there are news articles and media segments that speak about rising food prices. Some argue that the crisis is caused by climate change, some by the interest in biofuels, some by inadequate public policy and food tariffs in the developed world, some by rising energy costs, and some by the need to pay the costs of the producing food by the farmer more adequately. There are people who suggest that food shortage is caused by disease and pestilence or by purchasing power of emerging economies: people in these emerging markets simply have the resources to be able to purchase more food or buy more food of higher quality. I attended a Toronto conference on the causes and consequences of rising food costs. Economists and food and agriculture experts on the panel agreed that there are multiple causes of the rising food prices and that those costs will continue to climb along with rising costs of energy and other commodities. For more vulnerable members of society who spend a greater portion of their incomes on such basics as food and shelter, those increases are frightening. We need to take action. The conference called for greater government and private sector investment but they also indicated that few universities have the capacity and the record to be able to respond to these challenges. It is heartening to know that the provincial government recognized the challenges ahead and earlier this year when they made an outstanding inve ... |
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