One of the more certain ideas on China hinges on its appetite for something very basic: food. We’ve talked a lot about the world’s growing appetite for food and China’s role in that. The shifting diets…the straining of water resources…the diminishing acreage of arable land…
All of these things put pressure on the food supply. We’ve got a few ideas that answer the bell here, but I want to focus for a minute on just one — Saskatchewan, Canada.
[Read more...]
Food and Drink Prices to Soar
Today's report begins with an abominable horror: The world's most valuable commodity has soared to its highest price in a generation.

[Read more...]