Skepticlawyer

As food prices soar around the world, apparently one group (deservedly) losing out is Afghanistan’s Taliban. Local farmers prefer to grow wheat these days – there’s more profit in it for them. Opium profits helped to fund the Taliban – so much so, they’re still trying to lever farmers to keep growing it. Without the money, the Talibs have got themselves rather rogered.

I’m sure there’s a term in economics for this, but buggered if I know what it is.