“In early January, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that itsFood Price Index had reached an all-time high in December, exceeding the previous record set during the 2007-08 price surge. Even more alarming, on February 3rd, theFAO announced that the December record had been broken in January as prices climbed an additional 3 percent.”

Is the World One Poor Harvest Away From Chaos? via Lester Brown – Treehugger

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