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How Does Global Food Inflation Affect Us?

April 24th, 2008 Molly

In recent days, U.S. warehouse retail chains have limited how much rice customers can purchase as prices rise.  The price of wheat is also rising and the cost of groceries in general is climbing at an annual rate of about 5% this year.  How does global food inflation affect what we will eat in the future and what can we do about it now? 

Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times and search for other news articles about the food supply in the library’s ProQuest newspaper index online.  Continue your research at the library with these titles:

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Economics by Craig Hovey with Gregory Rehmke. 
• The End of Food by Paul Roberts. 
• Famine & Fat: Readings on Poverty, Wealth & Food Security edited by Marnie J. McCuen. 
• Feeding the Future:  From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World’s Food Crises edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon.
• Feeding People is Easy by Colin Tudge.
• Hunger:  A Modern History by James Vernon.
• Meals to Come:  A History of the Future of Food by Warren Belasco.
• The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming has Endangered America’s Food Supply by Ken Midkiff.
• Raising Less Corn, More Hell:  The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food by George Pyle.
• World Hunger edited by Claire Stanford.

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