Sentences with phrase «caused food price rises»

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

Let's not forget ethanol is made from food crops such as corn and right now there's a drought in much of the Midwest, which is causing corn and other crop prices to rise.

Specifically the policy of burning food — maize as biofuel — has contributed to sharp rises in food prices which are causing great hardship in many countries and is also now leading to increased deforestation in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Togo, Cambodia, Nigeria, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Benin and Uganda for cultivation of crops».

Then follows a mention of the riots caused by food price rises in eleven countries in 2008 and 2010, referenced to

My aching sides — Ed] think - tank the Climate Institute found extreme weather events, caused by climate change, will lead to food price rises in the future.

«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,» said Gawain Kripke, policy director for the organization.

It is not the heat wave that was the major contributor to the recent rise in food prices; it is the price hike that caused the heat wave!

[Response: The proximate cause of the rise in food prices was the Russian heat wave.

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Using so much of the corn crop for fuel for cars and trucks rather than for food has already caused world prices for corn to rise sharply.

But the growing appetite of ethanol refiners for the American corn crop has steadily driven up the price of food worldwide, while increased demand for corn has caused an rise in fertilizer use and pesticide - intensive agriculture in the United States.

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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