Potrava sa stáva „novým globálnym zlatom“
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The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.
In Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City, traders watched from the pits early last summer as wheat prices spiked amid mediocre harvests in the United States and Europe and signs of prolonged drought in Australia. But within a few weeks, the traders discerned an ominous snowball effect -- one that would eventually bring down a prime minister in Haiti, make more children in Mauritania go to bed hungry, even cause Sam's Club to restrict U.S. sales of rice.
As prices rose, major grain producers battling inflation, caused in part by soaring oil bills, were moving to bar exports on a range of crops to control costs at home. It meant less supply on world markets even as global demand entered a fundamentally new phase. Already, corn prices had been climbing for months on the back of booming government-subsidized ethanol programs. Demand for soybeans was surging in China. But as supplies in the pipelines of global trade shrank, prices began shooting through the roof.
Článok:www.startribune.com/world/18303649.html
07.05.2008
