Sentences with phrase «higher food prices»

As food prices rise, we are likely to see more food unrest, such as when high food prices helped fuel the Arab Spring in 2011.

The drought in California has led to more fires and fewer crops, and will likely result in higher food prices in much of the U.S.

They have to cope with higher food prices at a time when extreme weather may have also killed their livestock, destroyed their home or farm, or stripped them of their livelihood.

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?

The resulting high food prices hurt Americans who were suffering from the effects of the Great Depression.

For example, tariffs on agricultural imports during the Great Depression, which were designed to support American farmers, led to higher food prices at a time when people were struggling financially.

Economists expect the CPI to inch upward as the adverse base effect and seasonally high food prices push up the inflation rate

Economists expect the CPI to inch upward as the adverse base effect and seasonally high food prices push up the inflation rate

If OPEC can limit oil supplies (thus creating high energy prices) I see no reason why the rest of the world can't divert grain to fuel generation to create high food prices.

Somewhat higher food prices are a bad thing for the poor because they can not afford a healthy diet in the first place and are forced to make further cuts on education and health spending if their food bill goes up.

It comes amid high food prices and complaints from environmentalists and other groups that crop - based biofuels production in contributing to deforestation abroad and exacerbating local environmental problems, including pollution.

«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.

They could lead to higher food prices as well as to converting marginal lands back into crop production, which would, in turn, lead to GHG emissions.

Losers, including Chinese consumers who might face higher food prices, will likely outnumber winners.

The task force, at its inaugural meeting presided over by Osinbajo yesterday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, focussed on understanding all factors contributing to unduly high food prices, especially at urban markets throughout the country.

Releasing a new report, he said a hard Brexit would «lead us off a cliff edge towards higher food prices, with a triple - whammy of punishing tariffs, customs checks and workforce shortages».

«The current drought is severe, and its impacts have been exacerbated by extremely high food prices, reduced coping capacity and a limited humanitarian response,» concludes the FEWS - NET analysis.

She found that night - time glow of the pirate home towns of Garoowe and Boosaaso has been climbing since 2008 (see photo)-- even as piracy took off and higher food prices forced other towns in the region to cut their electricity bills.

In 2010 we predicted high food prices, social unrest and political instability, and reported this to the US government in December.

As well as increasing economic stress and perceived injustice, says Bar - Yam, high food prices throw a government's failings into sharp relief, which could increase the chance of a riot.

Consumers» response to higher food prices shows how frail they really are.

More on food prices Food Prices in World's Poorest Nations May Rise 20 % in 2011 Economist: Climate Change = Higher food prices Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices

In the environmental community, some have tried to finger high food prices, and even — as a contributor to food costs — global warming.

A column in the Business section of The Times speculates on whether higher food prices will drive investors and innovators back into food research.

Beyond high food prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

In other words, high food prices lead to a kind of tipping point when almost anything can trigger a riot, like a lighted match in a dry forest.

But what's interesting about this analysis is that Lagi and co say that high food prices don't necessarily trigger riots themselves, they simply create the conditions in which social unrest can flourish.

Diverting crops away from the food market inevitably drove up food prices; both the World Trade Organisation and the US Development Agency have linked high food prices to biofuel mandates.

The French report says, among other things: «food scientists will need to organise globally, as climate scientists have done» — meaning higher food prices to match the higher fuel prices.

In 2007 and early 2008, for example, a bumper crop of media articles blamed sharply higher food prices worldwide on the production of biofuels, particularly ethanol from corn, in the United States.

Though the factors that have created the ongoing unrest across the Middle East and North Africa are numerous, both peak oil and high food prices seem to have played a role.

The report by TaxPayers» Alliance (TPA) and eurosceptic campaign group Global Vision UK (GV), claims the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) costs the UK # 7.5 billion each year in higher food prices, taxes and lost business.

Second, from work on the ground, we knew that persistent poor rains at the end of the past decade, combined with high food prices, had weakened the population's resilience to food emergencies.

The results from this biofuel program are draining the Federal Treasury to enrich large agribusiness, are creating high food prices and exacerbating hunger pressures, and are probably actually worsening the net impact on the global climate.

Somewhat higher food prices are a good thing for overall global food production because they stimulate investments in the agricultural sector which are long overdue.

The new corporation would likely lead to higher input prices, with less choice and higher food prices for consumers, and fewer non-biotechnology options available to farmers and consumers.

Colorado corn acreage is expected to grow by 25 percent this year in response to the high demand for corn - based ethanol, but agricultural economists say fears of resulting higher food prices are largely unfounded.

Higher food prices, social unrest, the failure of some fragile states — even mass migrations and a challenge to the world order — could all result.

High food prices in 2008 that sparked riots in several countries are likely to return.

The coalescence of factors that are contributing to high food prices has often been described as a perfect storm — an apt choice of words, considering the extent to which bad weather has made an already - precarious situation even worse.

Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.