Sentences with phrase «cause food prices»

We had argued that corn ethanol would drive biodiversity loss, cause food prices to rise and contribute to chronic hunger, while failing to reduce emissions, as it has in fact done.

Moreover, inflation caused food prices to go up, which ultimately took the Automats» goods beyond the range of just coins.

The company that owns CBOT, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange group (CME), also rejects the notion that the enormous rise in speculation in agricultural commodities in recent years has caused food price rises.

The shortfall meant Syria had to import large quantities of cereals, the researchers say, causing food prices to more than double.

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.

Agricultural land was badly damaged causing food prices to increase.

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.

Not exact matches

Just 16 % felt that the U.S. economy was the main cause, and costs in China and rising food prices weren't seen as significant factors.

As the WSJ puts it, who will be left «to champion the cause of good old fashioned junk food, sold at junk prices?»

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.

One possible cause for the decline could be food deflation, which has lowered prices at the grocery store, persuading potential customers to eat in instead of dine out.

Competition between restaurants will tend to cause retail prices to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital, despite the drop in wholesale food costs.

The importance of this is that the Chinese can relieve some of the food price pressure by increasing imports to offset whatever domestic shortfalls are causing the higher food costs.

Although monetization is a common and necessary practice, CARE maintains that the sale of this food in the fragile markets of recipient countries competes with the sale of food produced by local farmers, causing prices to drop and lowering farmers» income.

Also, negative externalities caused by conventional farming are not accounted for in the price of food.

This in turn caused the price of guar gum to sky rocket and caused a substitution effect that forced a lot of food manufactures to find another solution.

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Some pupils at Chicago's Drake Elementary feared that a Bush election would cause the price of food to increase and even wreak havoc with their school lunches.

There is a particular focus on traditional foods as eaten all over the world by people for thousands of years, as studied by Dr. Weston A. Price in the 1930s during his research in traveling all over the world to determine the cause of degenerative illness in his patients.

There is a reason: forecasting a big El Niño would cause a spike in food prices.

Researchers like Vaughan worry that without strong regulations, surging demand for bioenergy could displace food crops — causing prices to rise — or push farmers into uncultivated lands.

For the climate - related causes of food shocks, the researchers analyzed rainfall, temperature and — importantly — the international prices of food, including sudden increases in prices.

«In fact, without significant simultaneous improvements in the productivity of irrigation water, it could cause a rise in food prices and additional cropland expansion.

Quarantining infected people has interfered with harvests and planting, causing a spike in food prices.

A permanently erratic and harsh monsoon would depress crop yields, increase erosion on farms, and cause a rise in global food prices as India is forced to import more food.

Dr Price systematically addresses the problems which may be causing weight to be retained, with hidden food sensitivities the first cab off the rank.

To satisfy his curiosity as to the cause of this unhealthy trend, Price traveled the globe for ten years to study the effects of modern foods on dental health and physical development.

Dr. Weston A. Price noted in his classic book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration that white sugar, white flour, and condensed milk were the original «displacing foods of modern commerce» which caused ancestral cultures to abandon their traditional diets to the peril of themselves and their children.

As I argued in part 1, Price provided strong evidence that the transition from diets based on traditional, nutrient - dense foods to diets based on the «displacing foods of modern commerce» caused the physical degeneration that ensued.

High food prices in Sweden caused demonstrations, which in turn led the government to implement a special committee to investigate if it was actually possible to eat nutritious meals at a reasonable cost.

Ethnic Chinese were attacked because the government failed to explain that food storage and that high prices were not caused by Chinese retailers (Fiddle, 1998).

Just causing food and gasoline prices to spike?

In its report, Angus Reid Institute noted the Canadian dollar was a key cause of rising food prices.

The low levels of these two indicators are mostly caused by technology, oil and food price deflation (at least in the US, UK, and Europe) outweighing other inflation.

In a 2010 article in Harper's Magazine, Frederick Kaufman argued the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index caused a demand shock in wheat and a contango market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, contributing to the 2007 — 2008 world food price crisis.

While the price of these foods might cause some sticker shock at first, I can promise you that they are made with higher quality ingredients that will give your dog more nutrition in each bite.

The price tag and the fact that Hill's supports good causes can be enough for some dog owners to get the Hill's Science Diet Large Breed Dry Dog Food.

For the price, their food should be excellent every time and nothing should be coming out of China (ingredients from China contained melemine and cyanuric acid which causes kidney failure when ingested.

Price several premium feeds - generic or house brand foods are the equivalent of junk food and can cause health problems related to poor nutrition.

A quest for reality behind word wars over the cause and consequences of spiking food prices.

Setting aside the price of oil and its immediate impact on food, there is still enough going on with climate change and related water and agriculture issues to cause a prudent soul to glance around for an exit.

Gawain Kripke, policy director for Oxfam America, said, «The record rise in food prices is a grave reminder that until we act on the underlying causes of hunger and climate change, we will find ourselves perpetually on the knife's edge of disaster.»

Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.

Yields continue to rise faster than population, weather continues to matter less and less because of technology and trade (in the 1690s, when it was cheaper to move people than food, 15 % of France's population starved because of a failed harvest that today would register as a small price blip), and famine continues to reflect more and more political, not ecological causes.

That means when something like extreme weather events reduce crops and / or cause people to ban exports, then the price of food has to run up pretty high to have an impact on demand, which is devastating to poor people.

The Arab Spring surprised many people, including some who had expertise, and while attribution of such an event to a particular cause is probably impossible, there are people (as written up in The Economist, for example) who link at least some of the causation to food prices, and there in turn people who link at least some of the food - price swings to climate change.

U.S. biofuels policies are a leading cause of increased global food prices and market volatility, which threaten food security for communities both domestically and abroad.

This analytical report looks at how the key causes of the current food crisis are the combined effects of speculation in food stocks, extreme weather events, low cereal stocks, growth in biofuels competing for cropland and high oil prices.

Using corn for fuel rather than food caused a worldwide spike in food prices with grievous effects on the world's poorest.

[x] In contrast, climate change can be expected to cause massive increases to the cost of living, particularly food prices.