This is the case in India Indonesia or Malaysia

On the front of food prices, the indicators were transferred. Riots were then rocked various parts of the world, making the dead in Cameroon, Egypt, or Haiti.

Since a few months, floods, fires and the PLD protests multiply. The Australia to the Russia through the Algeria, the Tunisia or the Jordan indicators accumulate and raised the concern. "It saw the beginning of a food crisis similar to that of 2008", said yesterday the special rapporteur on the right to food of the United Nations, Olivier de Schutter.

FAO is concerned

Algeria and Tunisia, where the causes of the current violence go well beyond the problems of high cost of living, rising prices of basic commodities crystallizes the bitterness against the authorities. To avoid the same fate, the Jordanian Government has decided to "immediate" measures to "mitigate the impact of the increase in prices of commodities on the level of life of citizens." Prices for rice and sugar, among other things, will be frozen in 85 army unions, which are open to civilians. Demonstrations for "a decent life" should still take place Friday in the Kingdom. The Libya has also taken the lead. The Government will "remove the customs duties and any other tax on food products, including necessities, as well as milk for children", indicated Monday an official source. Other Governments who feared a domino effect took preventive measures to achieve food security by providing for tapping into their reserves or by encouraging banks to provide credit to farmers. This is the case in India, Indonesia or Malaysia.

"The riots in 2008 can reproduce because local importers have increased their prices very quickly." "(However), the food bill of the poor is the bulk of their budget," explained the week Jean-Denis last, Crola, of Oxfam France. For six months, prices of food products are oriented on the rise. The index of the Organization of the United Nations food and agriculture (FAO) to measure changes in prices of a basket of grain, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar was crossed in December its highest level since 1990. This increase is "very worrisome because it affects millions of people, especially when it concerns products including cereals", alert FAO. Corn, wheat, sugar, and oilseed rape are most affected by the increase.

Bruno Le Maire creates the excitement

Why has this escalation of prices China and its sustained demand, say some experts. But also fears of drought in Argentina or other climatic hazards. The floods in Australia worried about the wheat sector. As the Russia, another large producer of wheat, imposed an embargo on exports after last summer's fires. The France is now the sole supplier of wheat with the United States. The situation is so tense that the statements by the French Minister of Agriculture, Bruno Le Maire, yesterday, on Canal , have implemented stir the markets. Bruno Le Maire said that the national reserves of wheat were currently "sufficient" in France, but that, if the "crisis were to continue, it should be taken to limit the exports and ensure the level of stocks." Comments that he has corrected a few hours later by ensuring that it was not "question to limit French exports of wheat".

Despite the risk of rising prices, factors which had caused riots in 2008 are not met. The combination of high prices for oil and fuels for example is not the same as in 2008. It is however not excluded that, second food shock, countries are taking measures to ban export and that investors speculating in the short-term financial markets make up the price. As in 2008...