The Financial Times wouldn't immediately spring to mind as the paper to read for sophisticated humour. But every so often the economically trained writers fix their gaze on some anomaly of contemporary life and turn it into a laugh.
Years ago I remember a little gem of a pretend advert which said "Communist with own knife and fork seeks fellow communist with own steak and kidney pudding".
Then the other day there was a report of an article that had appeared in the Scientific American magazine. Come the food crisis, the piece had apparently said, we should grow crops nourished by solar powered lamps and irrigated with domestic waste water on each floor of purpose-built skyscrapers.
To which the FT helpfully put forward what it claimed was an even better solution. Use land, it suggested, fields of which can be found in the countryside. Sunlight and rain would fall on the crops without the use of expensive technology. And these "food augmentation resource modules" could be given the snappy acronym "Farms".