first worlders don't care, or at least not directly. If the wholesale price of rice   jumps from 10 cents to 25 cents pound it still doesn't make much of a difference. Same with the other big commodity crops. Where it comes into play is in the price of meat but that's just a shift in diet, unpleasant but it beats starvation by a long shot.  The difference between being poor as in an $8/hr job at Walmart vs. being poor and making 50$ a month in Bombay.