Rising prices for all the world's crucial cereal crops and growing fears of scarcity are careening through international markets, creating turmoil.
Last Thursday, as world rice prices soared by as much as 30% in one day, Egypt decided to suspend rice exports for six months to meet domestic demand and to try to limit price increases.
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While the story shows the big picture by showing the facts and how they affect several countries, it fails to show the smaller picture of how this affects the average person and what it would mean to them. There are several facts jumbled together with poor sourcing leaving it up to the reader to distinguish what the story actually means. It reads like a Powerpoint presentation. It's loaded with relevant—though virtually unsourced—information, but what it lacks is some good anecdotal evidence to drive it all home.
