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Professor David Victor commented in a Times of India article about the growing food shortage:
According to David Victor, an agricultural economist at Stanford University, "Corn prices are rising, in large part because a growing fraction of US corn production is going into ethanol biofuels, mainly because of ill-conceived energy policies. Since the US is the largest corn exporter, this affects the world market. In turn, this has some effect on wheat because, for example, wheat can be used in feed grain instead of corn."