Chapter 1: Floors, Fields, and Famines

1. Whitney McFerron, “Wheat Futures Increase as Egypt, Jordan Buy Supplies from U.S.,” Bloomberg News, December 15, 2010.

2. Yi Tian, “Commodity Assets under Management Rise to Record, Barclays Says,” Bloomberg News, December 15, 2010.

3. Interview, Chicago, December 15, 2010.

4. Kareen Fahim, “Slap to a Man's Pride Set Off Tumult in Tunisia,” New York Times, January 22, 2011.

5. Bouazza Ben Bouazza, “Youth at Heart of Tunisia Unrest Dies,” Associated Press, January 5, 2011.

6. Lester R. Brown, “The New Geopolitics of Food,” Foreign Policy (May–June 2011).

7. Anna Badkhen, “The Baguettes of War: Inside the Middle East's defiant kitchens,” Foreign Policy (May–June 2011).

8. Interview, Nicaragua, April 30, ...

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