Yet more talk about food prices

Food prices seem to be on everyone's mind of late.  Check out this interesting New York Times round table that asks the question "Is the world producing enough food?"  It includes viewpoints from several contributing authors.  One of them (Michael Roberts) cites a recent paper authored by Jeffrey Reimer and Man Li who are in the AREC department here at OSU!  They argue that many of the price controls and trade restrictions that countries use to keep food affordable and to support local producers actually have the perverse effect of  increasing global food costs.  But read the contrary opinions (Raj Patel) in the NYT round table.

NPR also has had a couple of recent stories about rising food prices.  Check them out here and here.