Sentences with phrase «in food prices»

The unprecedented spike in food prices drove up the number of hungry people in the world to over 1 billion for the first time in 2009.

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

The British supermarket industry is set to experience a decrease in food price inflation over the next six to nine months.

If the weather does indeed become unstable during the next several years, consumers could be facing a dramatic surge in food prices (very similar to the late 1970s and early 1980s).

More modest increases were recorded in food prices, up 1.2 per cent from a year ago, and shelter costs, also up 1.2 per cent.

That said, fluctuations in food prices can still make a major impact on the population.

How can there be timid demand with a 19 % drop in food prices.

Do you worry that you're looking with too short a lens in highlighting climate change (human driven) as a factor in food prices as a factor in unrest?

Several spikes in food prices since 2008 have highlighted the hardship that poor people, and especially poor children, face when food is priced out of their reach.

Until quite recently the long - term trend in food prices has been steadily downward, which hardly reflects scarcity.

Instead, the third world has seen a doubling in food prices owing to climate change policies such as turning over huge areas of agricultural land to the growth of biofuels.

While they haven't been able to completely offset the increase in food prices, they've come up with some very practical ideas.

But this is a long - term problem separate from the sudden rise in food prices.

An obvious way to guard against sudden spikes in food prices is to stock up.

There seems to be happening a series of bad reviews in regards to a fast increase in the food price in a very small time as well as a decrease in the size of the packages;

A jump in food prices fueled faster consumer inflation in October.

For anyone who thought the run - up in food prices in recent years was a fluke or a short - term blip, it might be time to reconsider.

Higher output associated with a moderate increase in the GMT likely results in a small decline in real world food (cereals) prices, while GMT changes in the range of 5.5 °C or more could lead to a pronounced increase in food prices of, on average, 30 %.

Even without climate change, population pressure alone will cause a spike in food prices without intervention, according to IFPRI's economic model.

Using corn for fuel rather than food caused a worldwide spike in food prices with grievous effects on the world's poorest.

Contributing to the nominal core CPI gain was a 0.1 % rise in food prices last month and a 0.3 % decline in energy costs.

The British supermarket industry is set to experience a decrease in food price inflation over the next...

Just 3 years later, another spike in food prices contributed to the Arab Spring uprisings.

The 2008 surge in food prices portended ominous and volatile times ahead.

«The reduction in food prices should not be interpreted as the end of the food crisis,» Diouf said.

In a section of the paper citing analysis in «The World Food Economy,» a book he co-authored in 2007, Southgate concludes that a low growth scenario for population, leading to just under 8 billion people by 2050, could see a 26 - percent drop in food prices even with substantial rise in consumption.

-- this huge drought, dust storms starting up in bigger volumes again, the Pakistan flood that displaced 20 million people, the Russian drought and fires that led to the highest spike in food prices ever recorded — that has an impact on poor people around the world.

A sudden rise in food prices helped create the conditions for the Arab Spring.

Specifically the policy of burning food — maize as biofuel — has contributed to sharp rises in food prices which are causing great hardship in many countries and is also now leading to increased deforestation in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Togo, Cambodia, Nigeria, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Benin and Uganda for cultivation of crops».

And in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky - high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs.

Since the budgets of international food aid agencies are set well in advance, a rise in food prices shrinks food assistance.

Since farming and the food industry are not famous for spending money unnecessarily, there must be a presumption that there is very little short - term «slack» which would allow its demand for energy to be reduced at short notice without disruptions in food prices.

Decrease in food production will lead to rise in food prices causing individuals to shift toward buying cheaper foods.

Expectations for changes in food prices increased marginally to 4.9 percent, while those for changes in medical care costs and the cost of a college education declined more substantially to 8.6 percent and 6.0 percent respectively — with both matching or reaching new series lows.

Yup, and that» 40 % of the corn crop for ethanol» is the direct reason for the greatest increase in food prices in the past 30 years.

BEIJING (AP)-- China's inflation accelerated to 2.3 percent in February, driven by a jump in food prices, but fell below the government's official target for the year.

Company - owned store and franchise store revenues may vary significantly from period to period due to changes in store count mix while distribution revenues may vary significantly as a result of fluctuations in food prices, including cheese prices.

The easing in price pressure largely reflects an unwinding of the earlier run - up in food prices; the ex-food measure has drifted higher to be up by around 1 1/2 per cent over the year.

Among them are loss of topsoil, increased pollution from pesticide and herbicide runoff, aquifer depletion, and an increase in food prices due to increased grain demand (a positive externality to those who farm).