Rising world food prices

There has been a lot of reporting in the media recently on why the era of cheap food may be coming to an end. The price of wheat has doubled in the past year - and it is not the only foodstuff trading at a high price on the international commodity market. While in the UK, pig farmers are protesting at Downing Street over the price of feed, the global situation is that things have got so bad that aid agencies are having to rethink their programmes.

This made me think about trying to locate my 1980s copy of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by Ronald J. Sider or (if I can't find it) to buy a new edition (now called Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity). The book was hailed by Christianity Today as one of the one hundred most influential books in religion in the twentieth century and went on to sell 350,000 copies. The basic message - to quote an apt phrase - is to "live more simply so that others may simply live".