Sentences with phrase «high food prices caused»

Where was he when we were writing about thousands of Africans dying because of high food prices caused by US farmers growing corn with government subsidies to fuel American cars?

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

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The importance of this is that the Chinese can relieve some of the food price pressure by increasing imports to offset whatever domestic shortfalls are causing the higher food costs.

High food prices in Sweden caused demonstrations, which in turn led the government to implement a special committee to investigate if it was actually possible to eat nutritious meals at a reasonable cost.

Ethnic Chinese were attacked because the government failed to explain that food storage and that high prices were not caused by Chinese retailers (Fiddle, 1998).

While the price of these foods might cause some sticker shock at first, I can promise you that they are made with higher quality ingredients that will give your dog more nutrition in each bite.

That means when something like extreme weather events reduce crops and / or cause people to ban exports, then the price of food has to run up pretty high to have an impact on demand, which is devastating to poor people.

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.

This analytical report looks at how the key causes of the current food crisis are the combined effects of speculation in food stocks, extreme weather events, low cereal stocks, growth in biofuels competing for cropland and high oil prices.

Crops have been failing, livestock dying, and people are being hit by high food prices — causing severe malnutrition across for millions of people.

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This is on top of other problems caused by adding ethanol to gasoline — poor engine performance, higher food prices, and more

· As a result there is an expected change in food prices with high crop yield causing a decline in the value of those crops.

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.

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

For 23 years they have maintained these shindigs with no effect on the climate but causing great harm to many ordinary people — soaring costs for unreliable subsidised green electricity, loss of manufacturing and mining jobs, and increased food costs caused by high power prices and using food for ethanol / biodiesel.

«It would be highly precipitous... for the United Nations or other international bodies to single out biofuels as the major cause for escalating food prices and take actions that might lead to even higher food prices,» the industry group argued.

Bush said of India's growing middle class «when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up.»