Sentences with phrase «global food price spike»

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

In 2008, constrictions in the food supply chain led to a spike in global prices and riots around the world.

Adam Nossiter, «For Congo Children, Food Today Means None Tomorrow,» New York Times, 2 January 2012; Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, IFPRI, and Concern Worldwide, 2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taming Price Spikes and Excessive Food Price Volatility (Bonn, Washington, DC; and Dublin: 2011), p. 17.

According to a report commissioned by the World Bank, global demand for fuels made from food accounted for nearly 70 % of the historic price spike in wheat, rice, corn, and soy during the summer 2008.

This in a week when Kentucky farmers were reporting that corn kernels were «aborting» in record heat, threatening a spike in global food prices.