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Janet Larsen, Director of Research May 2008

Growing Food Insecurity Food-to-Fuel and Other Challenges. Janet Larsen, Director of Research May 2008. Corn Futures Prices, January 1999 Through April 2008. Source: CBOT, futures.tradingcharts.com. Wheat Futures Prices, January 1999 Through April 2008.

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Janet Larsen, Director of Research May 2008

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  1. Growing Food InsecurityFood-to-Fuel and Other Challenges Janet Larsen, Director of Research May 2008

  2. Corn Futures Prices, January 1999 Through April 2008 Source: CBOT, futures.tradingcharts.com

  3. Wheat Futures Prices, January 1999 Through April 2008 Source: CBOT, futures.tradingcharts.com

  4. Soybean Futures Prices, January 1999 Through April 2008 Source: CBOT, futures.tradingcharts.com

  5. Rice Prices, 1985 – 2008(Monthly 100% Grade B) Dollars per Ton Source: USDA ERS

  6. Food Price Unrest Around the World September 2007 – May 2008 Compiled by Earth Policy Institute

  7. Source: EPI, USDA, FT Red circles indicate export restrictions in place as of May 2008

  8. Top Ten Grain Importers: Share of Consumption from Imports Source: USDA

  9. World Grainland Area Million Hectares Source: USDA

  10. World Grainland Area Per Person Hectares Source: USDA, UN

  11. World Irrigated Area Million Hectares Source: FAO, Worldwatch

  12. World Irrigated Area Per Person Square Meters Source: FAO, Worldwatch, UN

  13. World Grain Yield Annual Increase by Decade Average Annual Increase (percent) 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2007 Source: USDA, Worldwatch

  14. World Grain Balance Million Tons Production Consumption Source: USDA

  15. World Grain Carryover Stocks Million Tons Source: USDA

  16. World Grain Carryover Stocks as Days of Consumption Days Source: USDA

  17. U.S. Grain Use for Fuel Ethanol Million Tons Source: EPI, USDA, RFA 2008 ethanol use is a projection by Earth Policy Institute

  18. Grain Production Grain for Ethanol U.S. Grain Production and Use for Ethanol Million Tons * Source: EPI, USDA, RFA * 2008 ethanol use is a projection by Earth Policy Institute

  19. Gasoline and Ethanol in the United States Ethanol supplied less than 4% of gasoline consumption in 2007… … but used 20% of the U.S. grain harvest. Source: EPI, USDA, EIA

  20. For more information: Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), www.earthpolicy.org. C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer, “How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007. Financial Times, The Global Food Crisis, interactive map, www.ft.com. The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy, “The Failed States Index 2007,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2007. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, no. 2, April 2008. Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, “A Challenge of Economic Statecraft,” Speech at the Center for Global Development(Washington, DC: 2 April 2008).

  21. References Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Market Recap Reports, at www.cbot.com. Lester R. Brown, “World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front,” Plan B Update, 16 April 2008, with additional information at www.earthpolicy.org. Financial Times (FT), “The Rising Cost of Food,” www.ft.com/foodprices, updated 5 May 2008. Renewable Fuel Association (RFA), “Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,” at www.ethanolrfa.org/industry/locations. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), FAOSTAT, electronic database at faostat.fao.org. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Production Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline. USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), Rice Yearbook 2007 (Washington, DC: November 2007). USDA, Feedgrains Database, electronic database at www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FeedGrains. U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA), Biofuels in the U.S. Transportation Sector, at www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/biomass.html.

  22. www.earthpolicy.org

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