Sentences with phrase «rising food prices due»

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«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.

Total revenue has been rising over the past 5 years due in part to the rise in global food prices.

«Our food supply comes from California, and so our prices have risen 20 percent due to the drought.

Food prices in Harare, for example, rose 534 percent between 1991 and 1992 due to the removal of subsidies and price controls, spurring poor urban consumers to get access to food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 19Food prices in Harare, for example, rose 534 percent between 1991 and 1992 due to the removal of subsidies and price controls, spurring poor urban consumers to get access to food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 19food outside of market channels through home production or bartering (Tevera 1996).

With all the attention Brazilian biofuels have received recently due to rising food prices, the casual observer could be forgiven for forgetting another unintended consequence of the boom in Brazilian soybean production:

They are still going strong due to the latest revival of interest in gardening and the desire to grow one's own fresh and chemical - free food, combined with rising food prices.

Clini said that food prices are rising in part due to unfavorable climate conditions, an increasing population and a growing demand for meat and animal feed.

«half the world is vulnerable to social instability and violence due to rising food and energy prices, failing states, falling water tables, climate change, decreasing water - food - energy supply per person, desertification and increasing migrations due to political, environmental and economic conditions... With nearly three billion people making $ 2 or less per day, long - term global social conflict seems inevitable without more serious food policies, useful scientific breakthroughs and dietary changes».

With all the attention Brazilian biofuels have received recently due to rising food prices, the casual observer could be forgiven for forgetting another unintended consequence of the boom in Brazilian soybean production: Amazonian deforestation.

«They are hurt by declines in agricultural productivity but the value of their farm output may rise due to higher food prices, increasing their incomes,» explained Ahmed, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters.