Why food prices scaled the peaks — and why it matters

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By Nathanael JohnsonSep 8, 2014, 6:17 am40 pts
How did you fare during the great food-price spikes of 2008 and 2011? If your response to this question is, “Um, what food-price spikes?”, then you are like me and, probably, most other readers here. Yes, I saw the occasional scary-looking graph in the newspapers, but that’s all it was — a line jagging…

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