Sentences with phrase «global grain prices»

Citing concerns about rising global grain prices, as well as potential land - grabs by large energy firms, a groups of Indian ministers has quietly shelved the National Mission on Biodiesel, The Economic Times reports.

The weakening dollar is offsetting declines in global grain prices on the back of a strong international crop and is a tailwind for Victoria's dairy farmers.

The U.S. economy is a corn - based ethanol producer and this has helped put upward pressure on global grain prices which has benefited Brazil's farmers.

Not exact matches

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Plans for retaliatory measures were expected to impact US soybean exports the most, since it was a US$ 12.4 billion market in 2017.6 Elsewhere, corn (+10.5 %, to US$ 3.88 per bushel) and wheat (+5.6 %, to US$ 4.51 a bushel) prices also rose during the period, with wheat finding primary support from dry weather - related stress in select US states.5 Global demand for grains is increasing.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty.

«GrainCorp has performed well considering the subdued market and relatively expensive price of eastern Australian grain in global markets for the half,» he said.

Despite the global abundance of wheat and grain supplies, Southern Queensland prices remain well supported.

In 2010, droughts in Russia, Ukraine, China and Argentina and torrential storms in Canada, Australia and Brazil — all major wheat and grain producers — considerably diminished global crops, driving commodity prices up.

Several factors are at play in the skyrocketing prices, reflecting both rising global demand and falling supplies of food grains.

Sharply rising grain prices underscored ethanol's impact on household budgets and the global food supply.

Global grain stocks were already scant, so wheat prices began to rise rapidly.

Global markets for food, however, spectacularly failed in 2008 as countries shut down exports in the face of rising grain prices.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

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The NRC and ISU studies argue that U.S. biofuel policies have only modest impacts on grain prices whereas the CSI and CWFS studies indicate that biofuel policies contributed significantly to the 2008 global food crisis and / or pose significant risks to global food security today.

Peter's talk also highlighted the link between global temperature variations and food shortages and price rises, illustrating how the production of many staple grains will be reduced by climate change.

As farmers struggle to keep up with soaring demand for grain and soybeans, this ratcheting upward of food prices ensures that many of the 219,000 new guests at the global dinner table each night are facing empty plates.

Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.»

Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.org Read more about grain production: Rethinking Food Production For A World Of Eight Billion Food Shortages Drive Global Prices to Record Highs Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices

It says that «despite the current volatility in commodity prices, the long - term prospects for the agricultural industry continue to be bolstered by global realities, including population growth, an international grain shortage and decreased availability of quality farmland from a worldwide perspective.»