Tomáš Lindner

It might seem that the food crisis seen in the spring of last year has been warded off already. The harvest was good worldwide last year, commodity prices on global markets are almost back at 2007 levels and newspapers no longer bring reports about the crisis. Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, says however, that these are global prices, at which, for instance, Nestlé buys commodities. These prices have really decreased again, but in 80% of developing countries, food is now more expensive than it was last year, he says. Last year’s sudden news reports on the food crisis emerged particularly because it also hit poorer citizens in urban areas who are ableContinue Reading