Food prices

Agricultural commodity prices should ease from their recent record peaks but over the next 10 years they are expected to average well above the mean of the past decade, according to the latest Agricultural Outlook from OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation issued May 2008.

BBC News, 29.5.08: GM food: Monster or saviour? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7426054.stm

OECD: Press Release, 29.5.08: OECD and FAO see agricultural commodity prices remaining high and growing more volatile http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,3343,en_2649_201185_40717917_1_1_1_1,00.html

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