Chapter 4: A Recipe for Famine

1. Ethiopia interviews were conducted October 11–25, 2008, unless otherwise noted. Portions of this chapter previously appeared in the Bloomberg News “Recipe for Famine” series: see Alan Bjerga, “Dead Children Linked to Aid Policy in Africa Favoring Americans,” Bloomberg News, December 8, 2008.

2. Antoine Bouët and David Laborde Debucquet, “Economics of Export Taxation in a Context of Food Crisis: A Theoretical and CGE Approach Contribution,” International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Discussion paper 00994, June 2010.

3. Kartik Goyal, “India Scraps Tender to Buy 350,000 Tons of Wheat on High Prices (Update 2),” Bloomberg News, December 24, 2007.

4. Thomas Kutty Abraham, “Pakistan to Import 300,000 tons ...

Get Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.