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South America is booming, as India and China swallow up its exports of iron, copper, soybeans, coffee, coal, oil, wheat, poultry, beef, and sugar.
Just as American presidents looked foolish when they bent US foreign policy to the dictates of American wheat farmers in the 1970’s and 1980’s, European governments that are prepared to mortgage Asian security to a restless China also command no respect.
Last but not least, diverting vast tracts of agricultural land into fuel production has contributed to a doubling of prices for wheat and other grains.
Prices for oil, coal, copper, gold, wheat, maize, iron ore, and many other commodities have doubled, tripled, or risen even more.
In 2008, India capped rice exports, and Argentina did the same for wheat exports, as did Russia in 2010.
Nor did climate change feature prominently in his argument, although many experts suggest that this may be the cause of the droughts and floods that have ruined wheat harvests in Australia and vegetable oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Both appear to be sincere economic nationalists: Trump hopes to make the US self-sufficient in aluminum and steel, while AMLO seeks the same for Mexico in corn, wheat, beef, pork, and lumber.
According to The Economist, “price increases in corn and soybeans are not thought likely to trigger a food crisis, as they did in 2007-08, as global rice and wheat supplies remain plentiful.”
Egyptian researchers have shown that by transferring a single gene from barley to wheat, the plants can tolerate reduced watering for a longer period of time.
This new, drought-resistant variety requires only one-eighth as much irrigation as conventional wheat; in some deserts, it can be cultivated with rainfall alone.
Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world, and food subsidies account for approximately 2% of GDP.
Such a policy was adopted in the aftermath of the 1973 war, when America offered $200 million annually for wheat procurement.
As long as the price of soy, wheat, copper, oil, and other raw materials remained stratospheric, commodity-rich countries like Brazil, Chile, and Peru got a tremendous boost; even Argentina grew rapidly, despite terrible economic policies.
Russia’s government has banned wheat exports, sending world grain prices soaring.
According to Asian Development Bank research, by 2050, irrigated rice and wheat yields could fall by as much as 20% and 44%, respectively.
This would drive up the price for cereals, soybeans, and wheat by 70%, causing the number of malnourished children in the region to rise by 11 million.
The Flour Fortification Initiative aims to fortify 70% of roller mill wheat flour with iron and folic acid by the end of 2008.
To curb inflation, Argentina decided to suspend the sale of wheat to its principal export market, Brazil, where the price of bread had increased 20% over the last 12 months.
There are families today near Xian, in what was the heartland of the Tang Dynasty Empire, with two-acre dry wheat farms and a single goat.
There are other families throughout the world that could buy that wheat farm with one day’s wages.
Given the heat waves, droughts, and other climate stresses across the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere this year, wheat prices are now shooting up to their highest levels in decades.
The first, the Food Security Act, grants 67% of India’s population a right to 35 kilograms of rice or wheat for three rupees (less than five US cents) per kilo.
Iraq’s marshlands have been restored, and local wheat varieties in Jordan and Syria have been preserved.
You can tell Latin Americans or Africans that Asia’s unquenchable thirst for natural resources will keep pushing up the prices of their commodity and agricultural exports in perpetuity, turning wheat fields into gold mines.
During the past two years, a rash of climate-related disasters have hit global wheat supplies.
Total wheat production fell from 622 million metric tons in the 2005-2006 planting season to an estimated 593 million metric tons in 2006-2007.
With wheat markets tightening, more land is used for wheat planting, reducing maize or soybean production.
Indeed, we used to live in an economy in which the canonical source of value was an ingot of iron, a barrel of oil, or a bushel of wheat.
In 2010, for example, Russia imposed an export ban on wheat, following a severe drought.
Argentina the OutcastBRASILIA – Roughly 20 years ago, an important Argentine minister startled a newly arrived Brazilian ambassador by telling him that “Argentina is prodigal in three things: meat, wheat, and insane gestures.”
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