My colleague Susan Stiger did a nice job in this morning’s newspaper of connecting the dots between global food and local bird food: Don’t believe everything is connected? At the moment, gasoline prices, Burmese cooking oil and potato chips are ruffling the feathers on your backyard birds. This is a good example of an effective …
I’ve been looking for a standard food price index comparable to the “barrel of oil” or the “gallon of gasoline” we’ve all come to know and love and, more importantly, intuitively grasp. The idea here is a number that’s standardized, readily available and easy to grasp. The Economist has its Food Price Index, but WTF …
Via Michael Tobis, a Financial Times story about growing export restrictions in response to global food shortages: On Monday, India scrapped tariffs on edible oil and maize and banned exports of all rice except the high-value basmati variety, while Vietnam, the world’s third biggest rice exporter, said it would cut rice exports by 11 per …
Via statistical modeling, a video of a wonderful British art piece using grains of rice to represent various subsets of the world’s population: More from the creators.