相比之下农地的供应却没有增加，而激发人们投资热情广泛流传的故事正大行其道，正如1970年代的美国，一场类似的食品价格恐慌催生了上世纪唯一的一场农地价格泡沫。
By contrast, there has been no increase in the supply of farmland, and the stories that would support a contagion of enthusiasm for it are in place, just as they were in the 1970’s in the US, when a similar food-price scare generated the century’s only farmland bubble.