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Sarah,
Food prices are really interesting to me. This year in South Africa, the price of corn
has risen 40%. This is largely the
result of a drought and heat wave in the United States which destroyed a large
amount of this summer’s corn harvest.
The smaller supply has led to higher prices. For a poor South African, this price increase
is devastating.
Now the South Africans are looking to Brazil. Brazil is also a major producer of corn and
it has a different growing season because it is in the southern
hemisphere. Thus, Brazil’s crop will be
harvested this winter. If Brazil’s corn
crop is healthy, prices will go back down.
If the harvest is weak, prices will stay high.
Bottom line- millions of poor people in Africa are
dramatically affected by weather in completely different parts of the
world. That is crazy to me.
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