Rising food prices

It seems like yesterday, I was learning all about how there’s food shortages in various parts of the world because local crops were displaced by crops grown for cash that weren’t entirely suitable for the area. Food production was low due to low prices, so there wasn’t enough to go around and the little there was wasn’t too affordable since there was a lack of employment. There was a lack of employment because farmers were struggling. Farmers were struggling because food prices were low. Now I’ve talked myself into a complete circle.
In less global concerns, there was local talk about the death of the family farm. Agriculture had become generally unprofitable. One of the things being blamed were low prices, though we looked at the USA to take the blame for that since their subsidies drive down prices in neighbouring markets.
It feels ironic that we now have people lashing out at bio-fuels and trying to blame them for food shortages because they drive the price of food up. There’s something fishy going on here, but I think I’ll just keep going as I usually do.