print email comment close Factors in Food Commodity Price Increases URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/features/commoditypricefactors/ Description: Special feature from 2008 concerning "recent runup in global food commodity prices [which] reflects both long-term trends and short-term events." Topics including the Consumer Price Index, food insecurity, agricultural supply and demand, and other economic and agricultural aspects of the increases. From the Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Publisher: Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) LII Database Information: Record 26238 created by Jennifer English on 06/02/2008 Last modification on 06/03/2008 Published: 06/12/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26238