{"id":1658,"date":"2011-07-24T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:23:50","slug":"a-future-of-price-spikes-vegetable-stall-owners-in-time-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2011\/07\/24\/a-future-of-price-spikes-vegetable-stall-owners-in-time-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Future of Price Spikes&#8221; &#8211; Vegetable Stall Owners in Time Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china01.jpg\" alt=\"Time Magazine &quot;A Future of Price Spikes&quot; clipping\" title=\"Time Magazine &quot;A Future of Price Spikes&quot; clipping\" width=\"950\" height=\"643\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>One of my first assignments for Time Magazine is finally in print. I spent a few days in Guangzhou earlier this year shooting formal portraits of vegetable stall owners for an article on rising global food prices. A combination of natural disasters and <a title=\"Michael Pettis on China's Inflation &amp; the US Dollar\" href=\"http:\/\/thepursuitoffinancialhappiness.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/michael-pettis-on-chinas-inflation-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inflation<\/a>\u00a0continues to create a spike in food prices across China. Affordable basic necessities such as electricity, food, water and transportation are always a mainstay of the Chinese Communist Party, but these increases seem to be beyond their control. Consumption of food across China is rising dramatically in line with increased wealth in both rural in urban areas. Everyone wants pork and extra rice at dinner. Many of the figures in the article are actually quite alarming. Global food prices already increased 39% over the past year, food production must increase 70% by 2050 to meet the demand of swelling populations and the average amount of meat people consume has doubled over the past three decades. Despite our profound ability to manipulate our environment, we are going to have to rectify many of our eating habits, not only to combat increased food demand, but also to stave off the rising spectre of <a title=\"Obesity in America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obesityinamerica.org\/\">obesity<\/a>. Still, I am going to have my fill of tacos while I am in New York City this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china02.jpg\" alt=\"Wangquan is 56 years old and a mother of three. Her parents also live with her at home.\" title=\"Wangquan is 56 years old and a mother of three. Her parents also live with her at home.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1660\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china03.jpg\" alt=\"Machuangran is 16 years old and works at the market when his parents are busy. He lives at home with his older sister.\" title=\"Machuangran is 16 years old and works at the market when his parents are busy. He lives at home with his older sister.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1661\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china04.jpg\" alt=\"Liuhaili is 28 years old and lives her husband and son. Her husband also works at the market.\" title=\"Liuhaili is 28 years old and lives her husband and son. Her husband also works at the market.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1662\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china05.jpg\" alt=\"Wang Di is the youngest of three children and still lives with his parents.\" title=\"Wang Di is the youngest of three children and still lives with his parents.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1663\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china06.jpg\" alt=\"An assortment of vegetables and garlic at a Guangzhou vegetable market\" title=\"An assortment of vegetables and garlic at a Guangzhou vegetable market\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-1664\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china08.jpg\" alt=\"Peppers are one of the commodities that has seen the highest price rise at a Guangzhou vegetable market\" title=\"Peppers are one of the commodities that has seen the highest price rise at a Guangzhou vegetable market\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-1666\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110725_time_magazine_vegetable_seller_portrait_china07.jpg\" alt=\"Peppers are one of the commodities that has seen the highest price rise at a Guangzhou vegetable market\" title=\"Peppers are one of the commodities that has seen the highest price rise at a Guangzhou vegetable market\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-1665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my first assignments for Time Magazine is finally in print. I spent a few days in Guangzhou earlier this year shooting formal portraits of vegetable stall owners for an article on rising global food prices. A combination of natural disasters and inflation\u00a0continues to create a spike in food prices across China. Affordable basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[61,79,88,140,168,187,214,255,315,416],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings_category","category-portraits_category","tag-business","tag-china","tag-clipping","tag-eating","tag-food","tag-guangzhou","tag-inflation","tag-market","tag-portraits","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}