Sentences with phrase «resulting higher food prices»

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.

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

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

The result is that biotech is no longer reserved just for producing high - priced medicine but could start to make sense for commodity products like food.

Faced with labor shortages, the U.S. food system would experience supply constraints that could result in higher prices and force the country to look beyond its own borders for more of its food supply.

«In a world where everything for sale through an app (think electronics, taxis, food) is synonymous with vastly cheaper prices than physical stores, this exercise often simply resulted in higher outright discounts with every passing week,» Singh said.

However, there has been an unprecedented surge in demand for guar, which has resulted in substantially higher prices, and food formulators are increasingly looking for alternatives.

While GMO advocates point to higher costs associated with producing non-GMO foods, Chipotle's move to non-GMO ingredients did not result in significantly higher ingredient costs for the company, and it did not raise prices resulting from its move to non-GMO ingredients.

The food prices are great as well usually with smaller stores they cant buy the surplus petco can which in turn results in higher prices but they are cheaper than petco.

You can't beat the results or the price point compared to other high - end healthy foods!

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.

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.

In part as a result of climate change mitigation policies to promote biofuels and growing concern about food insecurity in middle and high income countries, large - scale land acquisition in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America has displaced small landholders and contributed to food price increases.

The many benefits of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) include: small seasonal and daily variations in availability, benign environmental performance and by - products in a family of deep ocean water applications, for example food (aquaculture and agriculture) and potable water, and improving economics as a result of higher oil prices.

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

«Last week at Cancún, in an attempt to influence richer countries to agree to give # 20bn immediately to poorer ones to offset the results of warming, the US - based International Food Policy Research Institute warned that global temperatures would be 6.5 C higher by 2100, leading to rocketing food prices and a decline in production.&raFood Policy Research Institute warned that global temperatures would be 6.5 C higher by 2100, leading to rocketing food prices and a decline in production.&rafood prices and a decline in production.»