Sentences with phrase «of food price spikes»

This strong link began in October of 2006, and contributed to 79 % of the food price spikes in the 2007 - 08 crisis, which left thousands of people hungry and food insecure.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online tool to track food prices in 55 developing countries, as part of its food price spike response.

Not exact matches

After months of higher input costs for manufacturers, the simultaneous spike in food and oil prices is a double whammy that is now starting to hit consumers.

U.S. packaged food companies are facing a spike in costs due to a dearth of drivers, new regulations and higher diesel prices.

This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion.

International dairy prices are up 82 per cent from the lows of February, sparking speculation about another big price spike, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

The FAO Food Price Index showed the first drop in March after eight months of continuous spikes — but it may not be a sure sign that the trend is reversing.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

Not surprisingly, those spikes in insulin levels as a result of eating highly processed foods sweetened with unnatural sugars has come with a heavy price.

A quest for reality behind word wars over the cause and consequences of spiking food prices.

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).

Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin have a sobering story in The Times showing declines in funding for agricultural development assistance and basic research even as the world's poorest regions face spiking prices and shortages of basic foods.

I see absolutely no reason that this food price spike is any different from any of the ones in the last four decades: ie, a normal self - correcting phenomenon in which a slight imbalance between demand and supply is reflected in a price rise, which will result in higher output next harvest.

It may be time to do the same thing for the hybrid debate over the role of climate change in propelling food price spikes and political instability in Egypt and other turbulent places.

Adam Nossiter, «For Congo Children, Food Today Means None Tomorrow,» New York Times, 2 January 2012; Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, IFPRI, and Concern Worldwide, 2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taming Price Spikes and Excessive Food Price Volatility (Bonn, Washington, DC; and Dublin: 2011), p. 17.

A searing heat wave struck Moscow in late June 2010, spawning massive wildfires, killing tens of thousands, and cutting Russia's wheat crop by 40 %, contributing to a sharp spike in world food prices.

«We're already facing food price spikes and the early impacts of human - caused climate change on food production.

«A sudden food price spike in 2008 led to food riots across parts of the world that are in danger of soon being repeated,» USAFLPB notes.

According to a report commissioned by the World Bank, global demand for fuels made from food accounted for nearly 70 % of the historic price spike in wheat, rice, corn, and soy during the summer 2008.

In a globalized world, the expansion of the biofuels industry has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of land for food - based agriculture in poor corners of Asia, Africa and Latin America because the raw material is grown wherever it is cheapest.

They would have to collude to fix their prices (as the ethanol lobby always claims grocery chains do when the price of food spikes), which is illegal.

Then from 2010 to 2011, the price of wheat doubled — fueled by a combination of extreme weather events linked to climate change, oil price spikes and intensified speculation on food commodities — impacting on Syrian wheat imports.

The revolutions recently and on - going in the ME have food pricing as a stronger driver than any political ideology, e.g. Keep your eye on China; its power and food shortages are spiking; the gubmint has even resorted to actually increasing electricity prices, much to its own chagrin and the distress of the public.

This guidance document underscores that: poor people are already at risk from climate - related shocks, including crop failures from reduced rainfall, food prices spikes after extreme weather events, and increased incidence of diseases following heat waves and floods.

The food price spikes of 2008 brought new attention to the need for developing countries to reduce their dependence on imports and invest in their small - scale food producers.

According to 2012 data from the UN World Food Program 2012, Senegal is chronically vulnerable to natural disasters (particularly drought and flooding), its agricultural sector has declined over time, it imports about 46 % of its food requirements, its ground water tables is falling 20 feet per years in many places, and it is vulnerable to food price spiFood Program 2012, Senegal is chronically vulnerable to natural disasters (particularly drought and flooding), its agricultural sector has declined over time, it imports about 46 % of its food requirements, its ground water tables is falling 20 feet per years in many places, and it is vulnerable to food price spifood requirements, its ground water tables is falling 20 feet per years in many places, and it is vulnerable to food price spifood price spikes.

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.

Beyond that, «more frequent and extreme weather events will compound things further, creating shortages, destabilizing markets, and precipitating food price spikes which will be felt on top of the projected structural price rises.»