If we don't reverse the current trend in food prices, we've got until
August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity
theorists
'What causes riots? That's not a question you would expect to have a simple answer.
But today, Marco Lagi and buddies at the New England Complex Systems
Institute in Cambridge, say they've found a single factor that seems to
trigger riots around the world.
This single factor is the price of food. Lagi and co say that when it
rises above a certain threshold, social unrest sweeps the planet.'
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