Sentences with phrase «rice prices tripling»
In 2008, the world experienced spikes in international cereal prices, with wheat and corn prices doubling over about two years and rice prices tripling over just a few months in late 2007 and early 2008.
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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.
During the 2007 - 8 food crisis the prices of wheat and corn doubled, while the price of rice tripled.
This 41 - million - ton jump doubled the annual growth in world demand for grain almost overnight, helping to triple world prices for wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans from mid-2006 to mid-2008.
«The tripling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices between mid-2006 and mid-2008 signaled our growing vulnerability to food shortages,» says Brown.