There are a number of reasons for the ongoing food crisis, that has set off riots in such disparate places like Haiti, Cairo, Cameroon, Senegal, and Bangladesh. A few of the key reason are:
-Bad weather
-Decline in agricultural investment by governments
-Opening of markets in a variety of countries b/c of various trade agreements that have hurt small farmers and favored international agribusiness
-Rising “protein” demands of large populations in India and China
-fertilizer shortages
-the higher price of oil
-the transfer of countless acres of farmland from the growing of food to the production of bio-fuels
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