Sentences with phrase «affect food prices»

Richard Volpe, a U.S. Department of Agriculture economist at the Food Markets Bureau in Maryland, said concern over how California's drought will affect food prices is well founded.

He didn't know whether the drop in production would affect food prices nationally but predicted that some key crops would get more expensive.

The book is available here: The Economics of Food: How Feeding and Fueling the Planet Affects Food Prices

The expansion of the pellets - to - carbon - credit scheme has the feel of an energy rush akin to what happened in Pennsylvania in the early days of the hydraulic fracturing boom and the destructive palm oil push that affected food prices.

The sad part of all this is that no one seems to care about how the policy affected food prices.

So to imply criticism to our post by quoting statistics indicating that corn ethanol is not affecting food prices is, well, a red herring.

Globally, the dominant economic intervention affecting food pricing is national taxation on food to raise general revenue.17, 18 In Australia, the basic foods required to maintain health were mostly exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the price of these foods was expected to fall after the introduction of the new tax system in 2000.19 However, in Queensland from 2000 to 2001, the price of a basket of healthy foods increased by 12 %, more than twice that of less healthy options.20 This highlights the unpredictability of complex economic systems and the need for rigorous testing of economic solutions to increase access to healthy food.18 Such testing is imperative within remote communities, but baseline data are not readily available as Australia lacks a comprehensive food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance system.

Not exact matches

Food price inflation caused by a falling loonie has negatively affected the ability of low - income families to buy healthy fFood price inflation caused by a falling loonie has negatively affected the ability of low - income families to buy healthy foodfood.

Over the year, food prices rose by 4 1/2 per cent, with above - average price rises being recorded for a number of commodities affected by the drought.

The problem has perhaps most directly affected the poor: calorie - rich food is inexpensive, while the price of flesh foods is increasing.

Russia spends nearly $ 10 billion on food from those countries, which Russia's Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov says will affect about 10 percent of its pork, fish and fruit supply and drive up food prices, according to the Washington Post.

Industry trends affecting Pacific Seafood Group, and food processors in general, include market consolidation, increased price competition, greater consumer health consciousness and increasing popularity of organic and natural foods.

«The uses for corn in ethanol production coupled with drought conditions throughout the Midwest growing regions have led to dramatic price increases affecting everything from prepared foods to animal feed for our dairy and meat products,» he states.

US food coatings were affected by high raw material costs, partially offset by price increases and efficiency gains.

According to a study conducted by recognized food - marketing expert Kai Robertson, changes to a food manufacturer's product labels have not been found to affect the prices paid by shoppers.

At least 8 million people and around 8,000 hectares of paddy have been affected, leading to food shortage and hiked rice prices over the past few months.

Food prices are determined by the cost of production and manufacturing and are affected by changes in commodity costs, as well as production, including sustainability efforts.

One school or district may have a partnership with a large corporation, like Whole Foods, allowing them to source some healthier food items for a favorable price; if your school district can't get the same deal, then this will affect whether you can offer the same kind of meal for the same price as a district which does have a low cost source for better food.

«If the food is there, you are going to eat it, but the pricing very much affects how you are going to feel about your meal and how you will evaluate the restaurant.»

«Simply cutting the price of food at a restaurant dramatically affects how customers evaluate and appreciate the food.»

And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

Food and energy price rises affect the poor more than the rich.

However, being on public assistance or having low income affects spay / neuter surgery pricing and you may qualify for our Jacksonville Pet Food Bank.

All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change, including food access, utilization, and price stability (high confidence).

In urban and rural areas, wage - labor - dependent poor households that are net buyers of food are expected to be particularly affected due to food price increases, including in regions with high food insecurity and high inequality (particularly in Africa), although the agricultural self - employed could benefit.

Off topic, i have been reading about how world energy prices are affecting the food chain... I keep getting the sense that due to the dependency of imported food as well as population increase, we may be creating an «emergency», with malnutrituion and starvation in the world.

Climate - related hazards affect poor people's lives directly through impacts on livelihoods, reductions in crop yields, or destruction of homes and indirectly through, for example, increased food prices and food insecurity.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

«And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

«All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change including food access, utilisation of land, and price stability,» said Revi, adding that studies showed wheat and rice yields were decreasing due to climatic changes.

Even now, as I'm writing this, important regions of the Midwest, the «breadbasket» of the nation, are getting hit with severe storms and flooding that will surely affect crop yields and food prices.

Climate change threatens dramatic price fluctuations in the price of wheat and potential civil unrest because yields of one of the world's most important staple foods are badly affected by temperature rise.

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By the way, an EU Research Group claims that, if the current climate change and CO2 increases are maintained, edible food production will continue to be negatively affected and food prices could double or more by the end of the decade or soon thereafter.

In «Ethanol's Failed Promise,» Lester Pearson and Jonathan Lewis observed that «Turning one - fourth of our corn into fuel is affecting global food prices.

Food prices will rise, more people will go hungry, and migrants will flee the worst - affected regions.

Such a tax would be imposed not just on gasoline but on all fossil fuels — from the coal used to generate electricity to the diesel used to run tractors — so it would affect the price of nearly everything, including food and manufactured goods.

Commodity prices and how that affects the bounty and profitability of Canadian food companies is also becoming more of an issue than it has been in the past,» she says.