Sentences with phrase «to increase food prices»

The effect was to increase food prices at the high - cost extensive margin of production.

But the increased use of agricultural lands for growing energy crops may compete with food production, causing increased food prices and deforestation.

The same drought drastically increased food prices, making things even worse.

So even if ethanol didn't increase food prices and could be produced for free.

In these days of increasing food prices and consequent «hidden hunger,» exploring Golden Rice's potential is a golden opportunity.

Farms and Famine Southern Africa entered the second year of extreme drought, which left cropland barren and helped increase food prices.

Of course, another key problem from increasing food prices, is increasing world hunger and famine.

On the downside - and rather more significantly - it will increase food price inflation just when stagnant wages and an over-reliance on private credit threaten to significantly hinder demand.

And Mr Duncan Smith said EU policies have increased food prices while tariffs have added 17 per cent to the cost of footwear, 15 per cent to bicycles and 12 per cent to clothing.

If you're following the news, California is in a severe drought which is projected to increase our food prices significantly.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

A number of studies have recently been released criticizing the Renewable Fuel Standard for damaging the environment and increasing food price volatility, while a scandal involving fake credits has brought the Renewable Fuel Standard's compliance system into question by the EPA and industry alike.

«These additional costs will either be passed on to consumers through increased food prices, or poultry farmers will be forced out of business,» warn the National Chicken Council and National Turkey Federation.

Although Syria experienced an extreme drought in the 4 years prior to the conflict, other countries in the wider region, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Eritrea, had different climatic conditions before unrest started [although of course global markets also play a role, and there too climate connections exist, like increased food prices following the Russian drought of 2010].

It seems to me that as people start to worry about increasing food prices and food availability, we are looking back at what our grandmothers and great grandmothers did and seeing the virtue in providing for our families ourselves.

Despite common industry concerns, there's no evidence that requiring food manufacturers to label products that contain genetically modified (GMO) ingredients will increase food prices at the supermarket.

More than half of respondents also said they've looked for deals on groceries (59.5 per cent), stocked up on sale items (56.9 per cent) and planned their purchases before going into the store (50.9 per cent) as a result of increasing food prices.

Apart from increased food prices — which have been confirmed by both the United States Department of Agriculture and the World Bank — the RFS increased the costs of gasoline and diesel.

Biofuels are generally an expensive and ineffective way to cut greenhouse gas emissions when compared to other policies and are likely to cause increasing food prices and insecurity, concluded a UK government report yesterday.

Whole Foods, based in Austin, Texas, and the largest U.S. natural - goods grocer, said vendors have increased food prices this year.

But their dollars don't buy as much as they used to, thanks to increased food prices.

Concerns exist that this approach may increase food prices and contribute to food shortages in some areas of the world.

Water scarcity is a serious issue and a concern among the dairy industry, as declines in the availability of water could decrease food supply and increase food price.

Climate policies that target agriculture and forests could lead to increased food prices, but reducing deforestation and increasing soil carbon sequestration...

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.

This may lead to scarcity of some foods, increase food prices, and threaten access to food for Americans who experience food insecurity.»

Climate - related hazards affect poor people's lives directly through impacts on livelihoods, reductions in crop yields, or destruction of homes and indirectly through, for example, increased food prices and food insecurity.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

Impacts of the ongoing drought include concerns over water resources, municipalities running out of water, agricultural losses, reduction of jobs in the agricultural sector, increased food prices, and impacts on winter recreation - related businesses.

Drought ranks second in terms of national weather - related economic impacts, with annual losses nearing $ 9 billion per year in the U.S. [1] Beyond direct economic impacts, drought can threaten drinking water supplies and ecosystems, and can even contribute to increased food prices.

suggests this trend may be linked to increased food prices.