Sentences with phrase «of food price rises»

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

The UN rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, added his weight to Masters» side of the debate at the end of last year when he concluded a speculative bubble was responsible for a significant part of the food price rises.

A World Bank analyst attributes 70 percent of the food price rise to this diversion of food to produce fuel for cars.

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For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

Yum China, under new boss Micky Pant, is facing a cocktail of challenges in China: a slowing fast - food market, the rise of food delivery apps creating an online price war, and a lack of local franchise partners.

Stripping away the effect of fresh food and energy, consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in January from a year ago.

Food prices rose 0.2 percent, with food away from home up 0.4 percent, its biggest gain in a year and part of a 2.5 percent annualized gFood prices rose 0.2 percent, with food away from home up 0.4 percent, its biggest gain in a year and part of a 2.5 percent annualized gfood away from home up 0.4 percent, its biggest gain in a year and part of a 2.5 percent annualized gain.

It's likely Ontario's restaurant food inflation will continue to rise, he said, as price - sensitive restaurateurs realize they did not increase prices enough initially or learn they did not account for the costs of other new legislation, including new rules around vacation and holiday pay.

Expectations were for prices to fall 0.4 % in December from the prior month, with prices expected to rise 0.1 % when stripping out the more volatile costs of food and energy.

«Core» prices, which exclude the more volatile costs of food and energy, rose 0.3 % month - on - month in December and rose 2.1 % when compared to the prior year.

[As] concerns over rising food prices subsided [from the second quarter], political stability is now the second highest concern after recent high - profile demonstrations and as politics [dominates] the media headlines,» Richard Hall, country manager of Nielsen Malaysia, told CNBC in an e-mail interview.

Arnold said this is the last phase of Chipotle's planned price increase and is a response to rising inflation in food and labor costs.

Any shortfall would lead to rising food prices that would hit the world's poor hardest, as has already occurred from price increases of recent years.

Feb 2 U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores.

The latest data show Japan's core consumer price index (excluding fresh food) rose 1.0 % year - on - year in February, accelerating from a gain of 0.9 % in January.

Food prices measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics rose 0.3 percent in April, bringing this year's gain to the highest since a 3 percent increase in the first four months of 1990.

Excluding energy, prices rose 1.0 %, while prices of food, alcohol and tobacco increased 1.7 % and prices of services were 1.1 % higher.

After stripping out prices for food and energy, which tend to be more volatile, prices rose by just 0.7 % in the 12 months to December — the lowest rate of «core» inflation since records began in January 2001.

But services prices also fell during the month, while prices of manufactured goods and food rose slightly.

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.

First, food and energy are a bigger part of CPI baskets in these countries than in the developed economies, so the impact there of the rises in commodity prices is larger.

The most welcome news was that the core consumer price index (CPI)-- which excludes food and energy — rose 2.3 percent year - over-year in February, representing the fourth straight month of inflation and the highest rate since October 2008.

Inflation is higher than the core CPI indicates for a wide number of reasons, but the simplest one is that they exclude food and energy, whose prices have risen at faster than everything else for the past 10 - 20 years.

Over the year, food prices rose by 4 1/2 per cent, with above - average price rises being recorded for a number of commodities affected by the drought.

Charges add up while the cost of living constantly rises, from higher bank fees and insurance premiums to rising property taxes and commodity and food prices.

Another important, although more temporary influence on inflation recently has been a large rise in the price of food, which was up by 1.8 per cent in the December quarter, and by 3.4 per cent over the year.

This partly reflects the impact of higher food prices and rising indirect taxes, with underlying inflation a little under 1 3/4 per cent.

Increases in food prices, erosion of Qatari fiscal balances and a rise in borrowing costs are real risks Qatar will continue to face if the situation is not settled amicably, according to M.R. Raghu, head of research at Kuwait Financial Center (Markaz) and managing director of Marmore Mena Intelligence.

Under the new law prices will rise about 12 per cent for some food products, but that is not as tough as some had feared because it made no mention of preventing goods being mailed to China by shoppers in places like Australia or Hong Kong.

Over the last five years, as Coles challenged suppliers and cut or absorbed cost price rises, the retailer has recorded annual food and liquor deflation of 1.5 per cent and claims to have saved the average family more than $ 600 a year off their grocery shop.

UBS analyst Ben Gilbert said retailers were responding to the shrinking pool of supplier funds by using fresh rather than packaged food and groceries to lure shoppers, improving their private label offers and using price «creep» (price rises that are not passed on to suppliers) to boost margins.

Refrigeration being one of the largest energy users for a food processor, could have an easy to implement solution to rising energy prices.

While the world's media is bemoaning rising food prices, the French government is sniffing around the food industry for signs of gleeful profiteering.

Nestle doesn't expect raw material prices to rise further this year, despite a recent FAO report that forecasts an increase of over 2 per cent in the world food import bill in 2006.

Prices for a number of key food ingredients in Russia have risen in January and February, according to a recent survey, and supply difficulties are expected to keep costs high for the foreseeable future, reports Angela Drujinina.

Global dairy prices leapt up in January rising more than any other group of food commodities in the monthly Food Price Index, published by the UN food agefood commodities in the monthly Food Price Index, published by the UN food ageFood Price Index, published by the UN food agefood agency.

Last week saw a string of communications about food price rises: first warnings were aired about wheat, then meat, then dairy.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

«Food prices in Australia have risen significantly but only a small part of this can be blamed on any lack of competition.

Food price rises have a host of implications — for society, for public health and for the food and drink indusFood price rises have a host of implications — for society, for public health and for the food and drink indusfood and drink industry.

If food prices were to rise again, it is likely that there would be a decrease in the volume of waste produced by consumers in developed countries.

Analysts predict the average basket of food prices will rise by 15 % by June 2013.

Yet this island nation is also heavily dependent on food imports, and the combination of steep tariffs and rising world prices could prove difficult for policymakers once the impact is felt by consumers and business owners.

As prices have risen, food manufacturers have turned to cheaper vanilla flavours that are produced artificially; these now account for around 95 % of the total market.

However, much of this increase was just in the last year, as consumer prices for oranges rose 23 % between March 2013 and March 2014 — more than any other food product.

«As the global availability of nutritional, high - quality food supplies becomes more critical — due to a growing worldwide population and rising food prices — consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with food freshness, shelf life and cost.

«As the standard of living rises in those countries, our high - quality food exports are in even higher demand, and that puts pressure on prices,» it said.

The price of food continues to rise and even the dirt to make the cookies, which comes from the country's central plateau, has gone up in cost.

When talking about feeding our families and the challenges we face, 57 % of us say rising food prices and 47 % of us saying staying on a budget.

The economy is bad, gas prices are high, food prices are rising and many green families may be wondering how they can afford organics, costlier natural items, and some of those green gadgets that cost more now and end up helping you save later.