{"id":1066,"date":"2012-09-17T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2012-09-17T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:04:03","slug":"the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/425019\/the-cause-of-riots-and-the-price-of-food\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Riots.png\" alt=\"The relationship between riots and high food prices\" title=\"The relationship between riots and high food prices\" width=\"582\" height=\"382\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Riots.png 582w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Riots-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Riots-457x300.png 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1108.2455\">a new study<\/a> released by researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, high food prices play a direct role in the rise of political instability in North Africa and the Middle East. As shown in the graph above, when the UN food price index rises above a certain level, the number of riots increases around the world. The study mentions two factors that are leading to higher food prices: investor speculation in the commodities market, and the use of corn for the production of ethanol in the US.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study released by researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, high food prices play a direct role in the rise of political instability in North Africa and the Middle East. As shown in the graph above, when the UN food price index rises above a certain level, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Relationship Between Riots and High Food Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/the-relationship-between-riots-and-high-food-prices\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,27,28],"tags":[368,369,367,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}