{"id":33603,"date":"2012-07-16T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_food_crisis_fears_as_us_corn_soars\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T05:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T05:00:54","slug":"ft_food_crisis_fears_as_us_corn_soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33603","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Food crisis fears as US corn soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the world on the brink of another food crisis?<\/p>\n<p>It has become a distressingly familiar question. With the price of agricultural staples such as corn, soyabeans and wheat soaring for the third summer in five years, the prospect of another price shock is once again becoming a prominent concern for investors and politicians alike.<\/p>\n<p>The debate marks a dramatic shift from just a few weeks ago, when traders were expecting bumper crops and policy makers were comforting themselves that \u201d\u201c if nothing else \u201d\u201c falling commodity prices would offer some relief to the troubled global economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/ad1ec426-cd07-11e1-92c1-00144feabdc0.html\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the world on the brink of another food crisis? It has become a distressingly familiar question. With the price of agricultural staples such as corn, soyabeans and wheat soaring for the third summer in five years, the prospect of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33603\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,49,100,149,119,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-general-interest","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-economy","category-globalization","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}