The increase in food prices is structural. And the "blame" lies with the boom in emerging markets

Both the United Nations and Nestlé agree. The surge in food prices is not a 'flash in the pan', as they say in English, but a structural increase due to underlying factors, first and foremost the strong growth of the world's most populous countries. The first thing accompanying the exit from poverty is an improvement in nutrition, and the three billion people who want to eat better, between Asia and Brazil, put pressure on food production that is struggling to keep up with demand. Lately, and despite the heavier plantings triggered by a long-lasting high price, various meteorological events and natural disasters have kept prices high. These have interrupted the downward trend of real prices, which had lasted for many decades, and have embarked on an upward phase driven by the development of emerging countries, which now account for half of world GDP.
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