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For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

China's consumer inflation rate grew at its fastest pace in six months in October as food prices rose, while producer prices accelerated to a near - five year high, exceeding expectations.

Packaged food companies, such as Conagra Brands Inc and General Mills Inc, have flagged higher transportation costs and rising commodities prices in recent months.

[As] concerns over rising food prices subsided [from the second quarter], political stability is now the second highest concern after recent high - profile demonstrations and as politics [dominates] the media headlines,» Richard Hall, country manager of Nielsen Malaysia, told CNBC in an e-mail interview.

Feb 2 U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores.

Food prices measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics rose 0.3 percent in April, bringing this year's gain to the highest since a 3 percent increase in the first four months of 1990.

Excluding energy, prices rose 1.0 %, while prices of food, alcohol and tobacco increased 1.7 % and prices of services were 1.1 % higher.

In the December price data, food remained the key contributor to higher prices, rising 4.1 % year on year in December.

Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.

The most welcome news was that the core consumer price index (CPI)-- which excludes food and energy — rose 2.3 percent year - over-year in February, representing the fourth straight month of inflation and the highest rate since October 2008.

The Agriculture Department says the rise in food prices this year won't be as high as earlier forecasts.

Inflation is higher than the core CPI indicates for a wide number of reasons, but the simplest one is that they exclude food and energy, whose prices have risen at faster than everything else for the past 10 - 20 years.

Charges add up while the cost of living constantly rises, from higher bank fees and insurance premiums to rising property taxes and commodity and food prices.

This partly reflects the impact of higher food prices and rising indirect taxes, with underlying inflation a little under 1 3/4 per cent.

The FAO food price index rose in August to its highest point since May 2015, as increases in dairy, oils and sugar offset weak cereal prices.

Prices for a number of key food ingredients in Russia have risen in January and February, according to a recent survey, and supply difficulties are expected to keep costs high for the foreseeable future, reports Angela Drujinina.

Sfakianakis expects Egypt's food inflation to continue rising in 2011 to reach about 20 percent year - on - year, and said it would be difficult for Egypt to curb prices because globally they are likely to remain high this year.

«As the global availability of nutritional, high - quality food supplies becomes more critical — due to a growing worldwide population and rising food prices — consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with food freshness, shelf life and cost.

«As the standard of living rises in those countries, our high - quality food exports are in even higher demand, and that puts pressure on prices,» it said.

The economy is bad, gas prices are high, food prices are rising and many green families may be wondering how they can afford organics, costlier natural items, and some of those green gadgets that cost more now and end up helping you save later.

A high - ranking Indian official has recommended that citizens start eating rats to avoid rising food prices and safeguard the nation's stocks of grain, commonly eaten by the rodents.

As food prices continue to rise, gardening is also a budget - friendly way to ensure that you have organic, high quality produce for your family.

Levels of personal debt are rising higher than ever before as people struggle to meet increasing food and fuel prices when wages are being frozen.

One of the main reasons why prices of many agricultural commodities have risen is that consumers in developing countries are eating more and higher quality food.

I see absolutely no reason that this food price spike is any different from any of the ones in the last four decades: ie, a normal self - correcting phenomenon in which a slight imbalance between demand and supply is reflected in a price rise, which will result in higher output next harvest.

But I realize that I am writing this at the same time as world food prices are about to start rising sky high.

Non-food plant sources, such as jatropha and camelina, are promising, but difficult to produce in large quantities and can end up displacing food crops or lead to deforestation if the price of fuel rises high enough.

I blame the Greens and environmentalists for causing tens of millions of deaths through banning DDT, causing food price rises and increasing food poverty though their advocacy of biofuels and, importantly, causing the world's CO2 emissions to be about 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would have been if not for their anti-nuclear activism over the past half century.

Worldwide, high crude oil prices, increasing extreme weather events, population growth and economic development of poorer countries, crop - based biofuels, political conflict and unrest in the Middle East, and slowing crop yield growth are all factors contributing to rising food prices.

Other countries experiencing social unrest — Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen — also suffered high impacts, highlighting the link between rising food prices and political instability.

But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.

Experts attributed the rapid rise in food prices to several factors including high petroleum prices, drought in Australia, a weak U.S. dollar, commodity speculation, and rising demand for grain - fed meat by China's rapidly expanding middle class.

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Global food prices rose to a fresh high in December, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (Ffood prices rose to a fresh high in December, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FFood and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

Instead, we get non-dispatchable power from windmills and solar PV, both of which need big subsidies, and electric cars which cost more, have a high environmental impact and don't meet most people's use cases, biofuels causing food prices rises, and a lot of hand - waving about reduction in demand and insulation.

Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.org Read more about grain production: Rethinking Food Production For A World Of Eight Billion Food Shortages Drive Global Prices to Record Highs Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices

Part of this recent rise can be attributed to higher food prices and the global economic crisis.

While years of political dictatorship and repression are no doubt the top line cause of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt, the background impact of food price rises and high level of food insecurity in

«They are hurt by declines in agricultural productivity but the value of their farm output may rise due to higher food prices, increasing their incomes,» explained Ahmed, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters.