Sentences with phrase «grain exports»

Most fundamentally, it involves the restriction of grain exports by countries that want to check the rise in their domestic food prices.

Early signs of this are the record - high grain prices of the last few years, the restriction on grain exports by exporting countries, and the acquisition of vast tracts of land abroad by grain - importing countries.

Talk of «soaring» wheat prices and «rocketing» bread prices were common, in the British press, after Russia decided to temporarily ban grain exports earlier this...

Subsequent studies, however, have shown that the increases in food prices were primarily due to many other interacting factors: increased demand in emerging economies, soaring energy prices, drought in food - exporting countries, cut - offs in grain exports by major suppliers, market - distorting subsidies, a tumbling U.S. dollar, and speculation in commodities markets.

International agribusiness giant Bunge has officially opened its new grain export terminal in Bunbury.

Grain is the port's second largest export group, although grain exports through Esperance Port declined due to the drought in rural areas.

When China turns to the world market, it will necessarily turn to the United States, which controls nearly half of world grain exports.

Similarly, U.S. annual grain exports of 90 million tons of grain represent 90 billion tons of water, an amount that exceeds the annual flow of the Missouri River.

In the 1970s, when tight world food supplies were generating unacceptable food price inflation in the United States, the government restricted grain exports.

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.

Applecross - based Kerman Contracting has won a $ 67 million deal for the design and construction of a grain export facility for Quattro Ports, a joint venture between Qube Holdings, Noble Group, Cargill Australia and Emerald Grain.

China has contributed somewhat to tighter markets in recent years by importing more soybeans and cutting back on grain exports to build up its stocks, which should serve as a warning to policy makers for the future.

The heat stoked wildfires that continue to burn out of control and have overwhelmed the country's firefighters, while an unparalleled drought withered crops so severely that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin took the radical step of banning all grain exports.