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Agricultural Commodities: High Prices Here To Stay?

More permanent factors such as high oil prices, changing diets, urbanization, economic growth and expanding populations, are also at play and are behind the expectation of higher average prices in the coming ten years . . . . .

Any consideration as to what daily life will be like in a global environment increasing trade barriers . . . that is, increasing a stance of protectionism? Even if one is generous and factors in more crops at the expense of the Rain Forest or using desalinated waters in the Sahara Desert, there will be a higher price to be paid by an increase of demand for food.