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# Will soaring food prices create social unrest?
- URL: https://ivn.us/will-soaring-food-prices-create-social-unrest/
- Published: 2012-07-27T15:44:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:28:29.000Z
- Author: Bob Morris
- Tags: News

[Business Spectator thinks so.](http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/article/commodities-prices-corn-soybeans-global-growth-pd20120720-wcttz?ref=ivn.us) After all, steep food prices were certainly a trigger for the Arab Spring. The US is the world's biggest exporter of corn, soybenas and wheat, so these prices shocks will reverberate across the planet.

> Markets are bracing for a surge in global political unrest, as the worst US drought in half a century sent corn and soybean prices soaring to record highs overnight.