Examines the macroeconomic effects of global food commodity price increases that are caused by global harvest and weather disruptions, and finds that the decline in economic activity is substantial and greater in advanced than in low-income countries.
Read more...“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”
Read more...Many commentators have fixated on levitating US securities markets, ignoring softening growth in Asia that is now hitting commodity prices
Read more...Gail Tvergberg explains why oil prices are likely to remain be lower than full costs, and how that undermines the move to cleaner energy.
Read more...Oil mavens are stymied at guessing what the commodity’s price trajectory might be.
Read more...Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
Read more...Sadly, King Coal will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Maintaining and reviving manufacturing capacity in key insutries is vital to preserving jobs and ensuring U.S. survival.
Read more...Food waste is a major contributor to global warming, not only the rotten stuff per se, but the carbon expended by moving it hither and yon.
Read more...Inflationistas have abandoned gold and moved on to a new fetish.
Read more...Reading the tea leaves of the economy after Covid…..assuming an “after Covid”.
Read more...Some of the economic forecasts underlying the bullish oil price views are so sunny I’m gonna need shades.
Read more...How Big Food increases prices in categories like bread, beer, processed chicken, and packaged salad, and what to do about it.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, […]
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