Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >I have no problem with Bruces point, indeed it is one I have put forward
>> >myself. I just point out that with falling output and consumption that is
>> >static or rising, distribution may well not be the only problem.
>>
>> Quite so. I guess I have the general and continuing fall in commodity
>> (in this case food) prices generally in the back of my mind  ...
>> meaning or implying that we have lots of it (or the price would be
>> higher).
>
>or it means that there are too few purchasers for the market to operate
>properly.

Agreed.

>High prices in the international market do not necessarily knock on to high
>prices at the farm gate.

Agreed. Happens very rarely from what I've seen.

>Indeed prices at the retail level in the UK are so high that the price of
>wheat could double and bread prices need not chance noticably for the
>consumer. In fact between last year and this year, wheat virtually did this

Nasty. Someone (a middleman presumably ?) is making a pot of money 
somewhere :)

Bruce


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