#319 Food Prices

For two decades, leading up to the millennium, global demand for food [1] steadily, along with growth in the world's population, record harvests, [2] in incomes, and the diversification of diets. As a result, food prices continued to [3] through 2000. But beginning in 2004, prices for most grains began to rise. Rising production could not keep pace with the even [4] growth in demand.