Sentences with phrase «food price spikes»

The shortages, and the threat of food price spikes, could lead to unrest.

Those didn't result in massive global food price spikes.

«A sudden food price spike in 2008 led to food riots across parts of the world that are in danger of soon being repeated,» USAFLPB notes.

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).

They refused to endorse the recommendations on biofuels as any references to Human Rights, links with food price spikes and land grabbing have been systematically refused.

US picked it up, why OUR food prices spiked last year.)

It may be time to do the same thing for the hybrid debate over the role of climate change in propelling food price spikes and political instability in Egypt and other turbulent places.

Although we talk about food price spikes, what we are more likely starting to see is a ratcheting upward of food prices.

Millions of people around the world are fed by «food bubbles,» artificially high levels of food production that could drop suddenly at any moment, triggering food price spikes, inciting civil unrest, and swelling the ranks of the world's hungry.

In decades past, when food prices spiked, the world could return idled U.S. cropland back into production or draw down grain stocks.

Beyond that, «more frequent and extreme weather events will compound things further, creating shortages, destabilizing markets, and precipitating food price spikes which will be felt on top of the projected structural price rises.»

«We're already facing food price spikes and the early impacts of human - caused climate change on food production.

The U.S., in fact, could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action — limiting the amount -LSB-...]

If you've been concerned with wildfires and threats to our coastal ecosystems, food price spikes and other climate impacts, THIS IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP!

This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online tool to track food prices in 55 developing countries, as part of its food price spike response.

These phenomena have been among the main reasons for the growing food shortage and food price spikes,» says Reimund Rötter, a research professor at MTT Agrifood Research Finland.

Given that scenario, which I think is accurate, the short answer to your question is that the food price spikes we see now are only a dim pretext to what is to come — unless we make some major design changes in our food system.

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.

This strong link began in October of 2006, and contributed to 79 % of the food price spikes in the 2007 - 08 crisis, which left thousands of people hungry and food insecure.

The food price spikes of 2008 brought new attention to the need for developing countries to reduce their dependence on imports and invest in their small - scale food producers.

According to 2012 data from the UN World Food Program 2012, Senegal is chronically vulnerable to natural disasters (particularly drought and flooding), its agricultural sector has declined over time, it imports about 46 % of its food requirements, its ground water tables is falling 20 feet per years in many places, and it is vulnerable to food price spikes.