The UN’s assessment that agricultural commodity prices are likely to remain “high and volatile” for the rest of this year and into 2012 is perfectly reasonable. However, even if food prices do stay near their current highs, the impact on inflation will fade by the end of 2011. What’s more, the UN’s analysis includes some good reasons why the risks to prices may be increasingly skewed to the downside.
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