The Food Crisis: Get the Incentives Right

My old friend Tim Kane has a good comment on the Food Crisis over at Growthology.  He notes that the obvious solution–grow more food–is often thwarted by government policies in both the developed world and the less developed world.

The logic is pretty simple if you want to encourage entrepreneurship in poor, rural areas.  Get the incentives right!

If you want something more general about incentives within the corporation, try this.