Just because food production hasn't been a problem in the (relatively) recent past, doesn't mean it can't become a problem in the future.
Demand for food is pretty inelastic; supply tends to be very elastic. What that means is that you don't need a very big disruption in production in order to get significant effects on prices, which will push even more people below the poverty line and into the risk of starvation.
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Date: 2007-08-12 05:26 pm (UTC)Demand for food is pretty inelastic; supply tends to be very elastic. What that means is that you don't need a very big disruption in production in order to get significant effects on prices, which will push even more people below the poverty line and into the risk of starvation.