Yuyos de la abundancia

Los precios de los granos -y alimentos en general- se fueron al cielo. La explicación del fenómeno? Hay un gran menú:

Están las explicaciones idiotas: el gobierno no intervino en forma suficiente (y por ser las más baratas, son las más consumidas):

"There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers — and making things even worse in countries that need to import food..."

"...Governments and private grain dealers used to hold large inventories in normal times, just in case a bad harvest created a sudden shortage. Over the years, however, these precautionary inventories were allowed to shrink, mainly because everyone came to believe that countries suffering crop failures could always import the food they needed."
Paul (Quién Más) Krugman

Las más plausibles:

Are rising food prices the result of the economic dynamism of China and India, in which newly prosperous consumers are demanding more food—especially more meat? Perennial doomsters such as the Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown predicted more than a decade ago that China's growing food demand would destabilize global markets and signal a permanent increase in grain prices. But that thesis has so far not been borne out by the facts. China is a net grain exporter. India is also largely self-sufficient in grains. At some time in the future, these countries may become net grain importers, but they are not now and so cannot be blamed to for today's higher food prices.

If surging demand is not the problem, what is? In three words: stupid energy policies.

Y las más iluminadas: la culpa la tienen los países desarrollados.

Qué se van a servir la dama y el caballero?