Why is it that we can not create a world in which food is made affordable for the greater majority of people in the world today?
2007-06-22 07:29:49 · 4 answers · asked by lesedi 2 in Social Science ➔ Economics
increased demand from pop growth, and raising levels of income. this is tied with gov protection of the small farmer that can not keep up with the demand and has high average cost of production compared to larger corp farms
2007-06-22 07:35:22 · answer #1 · answered by haggismoffat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like most problems, there are lots of aspects to this. Here are a few:
1) Increasing populations causing increased demand for food.
2) Higher gas prices cause higher costs to run farm equipment and transport food from farms to stores.
3) Government policies protecting small farms (as mentioned in a previous post).
4) Government promotion of ethanol as a fuel and as a fuel oxygenate (replacing MTBE) has increased the demand and thus the price for corn.
2007-06-22 07:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by Michael C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is no secrete behind the growing of the food prices because as food becomes further away from the market place the price of this food or product increase. For example taking the banana prices it has been going up dramatically from about one year ago in Australia and this is because it stopped growing in the nearest place to the market in fact it is now mostly growing in Melbourne and the prices has gone u in Perth because of the distance.
2007-06-22 07:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by Yasmeen a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how much it costs to deliver goods.
Gas prices affect everything.
2007-06-22 07:37:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋