The world seems to have been without foods. The high prices that mainly began affecting the wheat, went expanding and reaching to each one of the agricultural products. The great powers and until the producing majors see be in danger their existence of raw materials destined to the food production. The increase of the nutritional demand of the emergent countries due to the important growth of its economies is united to an increasing tendency to the use of agricultural raw materials for the production of biocombustibles, having generated a ferocious increase of the prices in international level. Simultaneously, it is important to consider the scene in which happens these phenomena. On the one hand, we have

a sustained European production on the basis of an important tariff load that it lifts the prices at local level. On the other, an international crisis at financial level that foments the speculation around the nutritional goods as form of defense before the fall of the markets. The prices of foods raise in entrono of annual 5% in the United States, a country that does not count on an inflationary tradition, doing of this one, the worse nourishing scarcity in almost twenty years. Great retail supermarkets as Wal-Mart and Costco have decided on the rationing of the rice availabilities. Although, they assure that still they own existence sufficient to do against the demand, the implantation of a preventive measure looks for to avoid a major escases. On the other hand, Brazil decides to face the producers as it forms to restrain the rise of the prices. The government has imposed the temporary closing of the rice exports as he forms to supply to the local market. 1,6 million tons that had to leave to the most varied destinies will be in Brazilian territory in the hope of an agreement between the producers and the government to solve the problem of the prices and the difficulties of supplying, in a market that sees grow the price of the rice in an annual 20%. The producers, on the other hand, do not see with good eyes the threats of the government place a series of retractions to the exports with the purpose of to make fall the local prices, because they would see trimmed the exceptional gains that a favorable international conjuncture them makes possible today. The problem of foods concerns to all the countries in the world. The search of a solution, nevertheless, is more complex than one it could get to imagine.