Is there a Global food crisis today?

Hello dear academic friend. It is the same here in China that everything is on the rise. What used to be cheap is now no longer cheap, but more expensive. It is almost the same to any food today. So I have to say that you are not alone there in your country, friend. I am wondering when the price for everything will come back to its normal state, as I expect.

This is a world wide problem, though in some countries it is much worse than in others. Here in the USA the food inflation is much less than in your country, but getting worse. Here the problem is more like 10 to 15 % per year, not per month. However, the government will tell you I'm wrong. The solution is to have the government not interfer with farmers and allow free trade in food. When farmers know they can charge what they want without being regulated by the government, or taxed highly on their profits a funny thing happens very quickly. Lot's of people decide it is smart to be a farmer and shortly there is lots of food. As more and more people become farmers the supply of food increases while the price goes down. That is, until the government again decides to regulate and tax the farmers in an onerous manner again. Human beings are smart and productive. It is the parasites of government extracting too much from the workers and interfering that causes the shortages of all kinds.

I think it is going on all over the world. the prices of everything has skyrocketed. I know that the price of food in America has definitely risen. I have also heard that rice has skyrocketed also. Chicken went way up also since the feed for them went up. I think there is a crisi with alot of things these days and it is only getting worse for all of us. Lord help us.

in my country "pakistan" everything is related to petroleum prices and now in global market the crude oil price have reached 116 $ a barrel therefore every thing is getting expensive, i think the food prices in complete world is getting higher coz the production is less then the consumption, the basic rule of supply and demand.

Apparently there is. I had not heard about it until recently when I started getting my news from alternative sources. We haven't felt it yet here in the states, but fear it's gonna hit us soon. I hope your prices fall soon.