Sentences with phrase «rice prices increasing»

In South East Asia, monsoons and typhoons have been responsible for the deaths of more than 1,100 people and contributed to rice prices increasing by 30 % in Vietnam on the previous year.

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According to ACN, the cost of living has spiralled upward — since the war's outbreak the price of wheat flour has increased by 300 percent and rice by 650 percent.

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

Rising temperatures will slash yields for rice, wheat and corn throughout the developing world, exacerbating food price volatility and increasing the number of undernourished people, the report warns.

IRRI says that the Green Revolution may have actually increased malnutrition among the poor.19 Consumption of vegetables in most Asian countries has remained stagnant since the Green Revolution and vegetable prices have increased in both real and relative terms.20 In India, annual rice and wheat production has more than tripled from pre-Green Revolution levels.

Between 2010 and 2050, our scenarios result in maize price increases of 87 to 106 percent in real terms; rice is 31 to 78 percent; and when is 44 to 59 percent.

When land and other resources that would have been used for a crop (e.g., corn) are diverted to another crop (e.g., switchgrass), the price of the displaced crop will tend to increase because of the decreased supply, which will in turn tend to increase the price of any substitutes for the displaced crop, such as rice for corn.

A recent IFPRI - CCAFS study estimated that a 10 % drought will increase prices of rice by 23 %, followed by maize (16 %), and pigeon pea (10 %).

Rural poverty in parts of Asia could be exacerbated due to negative impacts from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living [high confidence].

The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.