Food speculation fuels Mexico's tortilla crisis

27/09/2011 3:31 pm

  • Source: The Ecologist
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A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. The Ecologist Film Unit meets coffee farmers already struggling with volatile prices for their crops - and now feeling the affects of the rising cost of corn.

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