food prices

He's calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices but record farm profits.

The seeds of a sustained increase in food prices are about to be sown in Mississippi, Nebraska and other farm-belt states across the U. S.

Annual inflation in the U. S. is likely to turn negative for at least several months next year, on declining energy and food prices.

Food prices in India rose nearly 20% from a year earlier in early December, but a slowing rise suggested farm prices could be stabilizing.

Zoellick believes that food prices continued to rise this year, sugar, increased consumption of meat is an important driving force.

At a time of painfully surging food prices, that would be a hefty boon for the needy.

Higher food prices are 'like a tax, taking consumer money away from spending on other things, ' he said.

It seems to have concluded that the best response to high food prices is to move closer to agricultural autarky than to free trade.

However, availability of food aid tends to be lower when global food prices are high, as food previously provided as aid goes to other uses.

Still, in recent years, some part of Malthus's prediction has appeared to be coming true in the form of higher global food prices.

Nonetheless, we still expect the lowering of food prices to be a slow process, as prices tend to be easy to rise but sticky to fall.

FAO senior economist Abdul ceremony Sae Ba Xian, said: "the high oil prices and food prices continued to form a vicious cycle. "

He said soaring food prices provided another rare opportunity for a deal, since European and American farmers are prospering.

The bank says high oil and food prices and a prolonged slowdown in industrial countries are casting a shadow on the economic outlook.

Just as they enjoy decent earnings after years of falling food prices, governments seek to push prices down.

In this article, the authors pose the question of how food prices might have influenced birth and death rates.

The substantial rise since the beginning of the year largely reflects the impact of higher energy and food prices.

In the meantime, he expects food prices to rise at least a little over the next several months.

In the past, the main argument for liberalising farming was that it would raise food prices and boost returns to farmers.

Steep increases in gas and food prices certainly arent helping the matter any.

The Libyan leader's regime clamped down in its stronghold in the capital, where residents said food prices have skyrocketed.

Indeed, if politicians had paid greater heed to the exchanges, they would have noticed that food prices may be about to turn.

First, the bank, and others, should beware sweeping generalisations about the impact of food prices on the poor.

Two-thirds of it was due to food prices, and much of that was due to pork.

High food prices have been a contributing factor to the recent wave of social unrest across North Africa and the Middle East.

So the Chinese reasoned that making fuel with cassava would not directly affect food prices or create food shortages, at least at home.

Unfortunately for the cause of rural development, higher food prices do not translate seamlessly into higher incomes.

But, for the moment, this difficult, abstract issue is largely obscured by the urgency of finding practical solutions to rising food prices.

In short, while food prices may be a global problem, at least in Asia, they are clearly a greater problem for some than for others.

The tendency may be reinforced by the kind of inefficient responses to high food prices that we are witnessing in Russia and China.

"Rising energy costs directly increase food prices, " he said, along with poor harvests and export restrictions on foodstuffs.

On the Web site, Sheeran said the increase in food prices is "a silent tsunami that respects no borders. "

Crime is at record levels, the economy in recession and food prices are rising at over 40% a year.

Food prices are down from their record highs in February. But prices are still higher than they were a year ago.

Increasing food prices are not the only problem afflicting the poor.

The cuts and high food prices have led to further economic hardships and a surge in poverty, especially for the majority of rural residents.

The Bank expects most food prices to remain well above 2004 levels until at least 2015.

The impact of financial speculation on food prices is now widely recognised, and this needs to be subject to control without delay.

With electricity flickering, food prices rising and fuel scarce, it is no wonder that the UN is warning of a looming humanitarian disaster.

We do not know how high food prices might go, nor how far they could fall.

The warning comes at a time when high food prices are already sparking protests across the developing world.

Still, some anecdotal evidence, plus the general increase in food prices, suggests that smallholders are not responding enough.

Food prices are particularly sensitive in a country where poor people spend up to half their incomes on food.

But I think you can expand the universe -- a bit anyway -- if you go back to the root causes of rising food prices.

A marked increase in pig stocks this year has helped push food prices back down in recent months.

Nor can one be sure that the rise in food prices is a one-time event, given that global prices for many food items have been rising as well.

So far this year, hopes of a bumper harvest have sustained investors worried about the inflationary impact of a rise in food prices.

For instance, agricultural food prices are up 37% on a year ago, whereas in 2008 the rate of increase peaked at 75%.

We wish we could tell you that higher food prices are just a short-term aberration.

Nielsen-Gammon says much of the Texas wheat crop has already been damaged by the drought and that food prices are likely to rise.

It's not just oil that has defied the complacency of a few years back. Food prices have also soared, as have the prices of basic metals.

Recently, due to the cold weather and "stock more food" before the Spring Festival, food prices in mainland continued to climb.

This is not to say that higher wages are the whole cause or even the main cause of higher food prices.

Food prices are at their highest level since the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization began keeping records in nineteen ninety.

Over the last 6 months, over 40 governments have sought policy advice from the Bank on how to deal with the rising food prices.

He said a doubling of food prices over the last 3 years could push 100 million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty.

Investors are pouring into farmland in the U. S. and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar.

ASEAN will also be looking at possible solutions to rising oil and food prices amid warnings inflation could threaten political stability.

The sense that the poor have lost out as a result of globalisation has grown with the rise in world food prices.

Yet here we are just a few years later, talking about food prices again.

One obvious rejoinder to these findings is, as Mr. Broda concedes, that the recent surge in oil and food prices has hit the poor hardest.

To see the wholesale price index, food prices rose less than earlier intense.

China's self-sufficiency in grain prevented world food prices from moving even higher when they spiked three years ago, he said.

"Metals prices are about three times as high and food prices are about two times as high, " he said.

Over the past years, this happens twice, the next two years, food prices continue to surge two to three times before the summit.

Although the country may be able to stave off shortages, food prices are surging, hitting poor people especially hard.

The Russian ban has been held as partly responsible for the five percent increase in food prices worldwide over the last two months.

Agencies like the Food and Agriculture Organization have warned that food prices will continue to climb steeply in the coming year.

U. N. officials have put food prices at the top of the agenda for an Asia-Pacific ministerial meeting in Bangkok next week.

In those days, city dwellers spent half their income on food, prices for which were going up by more than 20 percent a year.

Japan's core CPI, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, declined 1. 2% from a year earlier in February, recent government data showed.

In each of the past five months, politically sensitive food prices have risen more than 10 per cent from a year before.

The U. N. 's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report this week that food prices reached an all-time high in January.

Meanwhile, higher food prices are eating up disposable income that might otherwise be spent on a cooling beer or two.

The Six Provinces at the Middle parts of China are bound to play a important role when faced the rising tides of the global food prices.

Jing Ulrich: China's inflation differs from the rest of world since it has mostly been fuelled by a sharp rise in food prices.

With food prices soaring, pushing up the demand for fertiliser, Mosaic may make an attractive takeover target for the likes of BHP Billiton.

Experts agree that food prices are not likely to return to the levels the world had grown accustomed to any time soon.

Four years of rising food prices and no salary increases in Bangladesh have taken their toll.

But recent increases in commodity prices and food prices at the wholesale level suggest that the early characteristics are not setting in .

If food prices fall back, price controls become meaningless, subsidies can be withdrawn and export tariffs no longer make sense.

Agriculture ministers from the G20 nations are meeting in Paris, in an attempt to tackle volatile food prices.

"Food prices have not come down in the sense of other commodities such as oil, " he says.

Higher food prices aren't hurting Kroger so far -- the grocery chain has managed to pass along higher costs to shoppers.

For countries that have no oil to export, high fuel and food prices have made matters worse.

Lifting the ban on GM crops, both in Africa and in Europe, is the policy that could hold down global food prices in the long term.

The U. N. cautions that food security in the region remains shaky due to high food prices, impassable roads, and conflict.

Bettina Luescher is with the U. N. World Food Program. She says the spike in food prices has led to concerns about political stability.

Vietnam and India, another big rice exporter, have recently announced export restrictions to try to curb soaring food prices at home.

And for some consumers in the world's poorest countries, the true anguish of high food prices is only just beginning.

Vietnam and India, another big rice exporter, have recently announced export restrictions to try to curb soaring food prices at home.

And for some consumers in the world's poorest countries, the true anguish of high food prices is only just beginning.

Combined with sharp movements in the money supply, the consequence is volatile food prices that carry the CPI along in their wake.

But it has given just $1m and a planeload of food, though its farmers profiting from rising food prices.

Chiang said the drought will put pressure on China's domestic grain and other food prices.

Combined with liberalisation of food imports, a faster appreciation would also be a good way to deal with the jump in food prices.

For instance, Bill Lapp, principal at Advanced Economic Solutions in Omaha, said he expected food prices to jump 7 to 9 percent next year.

And this time higher food prices will not be the only negative result.

Some global ills, like the spike in oil and food prices, can be quantified.

Some of the inflationary factors, like global commodity and food prices, may be beyond Beijing's ability to influence.

Some of the inflationary factors, like global commodity and food prices, may be beyond Beijing's ability to influence.

African and Indian leaders identified rising oil and food prices as top concerns as they wrapped up a two-day summit in New Delhi.

Americans are being urged to help offset high food prices by growing more fruit and vegetables in their back gardens.

Members of the U. S. Congress encouraged Bush to raise the issue of soaring food prices and oil prices with other leaders.

China's consumer price inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in three years in June, propelled by soaring food prices.

Though withholding food from an emerging superpower could lower domestic food prices, it would be bad diplomacy.

Even those who might be expected to benefit from rising food prices are complaining.

Food prices, although likely to fall from their current peaks, are predicted to remain high over the next decade.

Food prices are rising, but the impact is not being felt equally around the world, says environmentalist Lester Brown.

This has also occurred in recent years in the Arab World, largely as a result of the brunt of neo-liberal reforms and rising food prices.

The end of the commodity boom was especially welcomed in countries that had witnessed riots over high food prices earlier in the year.

Investors were also discussing the possibility of a new interest rate rise to counteract the inflationary impact of higher food prices.

Price increases to become one of the livelihood of 2010, oil prices, housing prices, food prices, have been rising.

That's a problem for both countries' general well-being and health, but it's not the main issue in rising food prices.

The protests grew out of anger over high unemployment and food prices, which are currently reaching new highs on world markets.

Food prices are likely to rise, and with them poverty and disease: mosquitoes and locusts thrive as temperatures go up.

The push into more expensive items comes at a time when inflation has returned to food prices, after a period of deflation.

In India, food prices are at their highest levels in more than a year, rising 18%.

Maintaining low food prices for urban consumers is an important motivation for having pricing policies that discriminate against farmers.

"Fundamentally, the crisis of high food prices in the majority of poor countries is not over at all, " said von Braun.

"Fundamentally, the crisis of high food prices in the majority of poor countries is not over at all, " said von Braun.

More investment in agricultural productivity (including agricultural research) will not, in itself, solve the problem of high food prices.

Nevertheless the probability of continued increases in food prices cannot be reckoned slight.

An elderly couple surnamed Wang and Li shopping together for eggs at a Beijing market Saturday said food prices have been going up lately.

The World Bank has estimated that the sudden increase in food prices in 2008 drove at least 100 million people into poverty worldwide.

And the fact that the main driver comes from food prices exacerbates the burden on ordinary consumers.

Rising food prices might be one thing on the minds of Thanksgiving Day meal planners this year.

IN TWO bruising state elections last month, India's Congress Party suffered at the hands of voters angry about rising food prices.

In short, global food prices must be brought down, and they must be brought down fast, because their adverse consequences are so persistent.

Recent political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East strikingly coincided with rising food prices as well.

Recent political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East strikingly coincided with rising food prices as well.

"Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people around the world, " Zoellick said.

The solution: safety nets or social protection for the poor, to cushion the blow of rapid changes in food prices.

The trouble is that when food prices are volatile, government intervention becomes unpredictable in terms of its budgetary cost.

If we cannot move at wartime speed to stabilize the climate, we may not be able to avoid runaway food prices.

The rising food prices have helped fuel protests and strikes by working professionals around the country.

The report notes speculation in the futures market of primary agricultural commodities is behind much of the volatility in food prices.

Rising food prices have been spurred by rising fuel costs that have increased production and transport costs.

But rising food prices may put millions more into Ms. Finiba's sandals, just as donor countries' budgets are under pressure.

The World Bank yesterday unveiled a $1. 2bn fast-track funding facility to help combat the impact of rising food prices on the poor.

Riots over food prices have erupted across Africa and led to the dismissal of Jacques-Edouard Alexis, the Haitian prime minister.

One possible response to the question about the likelihood of a structural rise in food prices is: let's hope so.

Rising food prices around the world already have led to food riots in some African nations and Haiti, and protests elsewhere.

Food prices are skyrocketing in a way that may indicate CPI is actually underestimating the inflation threat.

Non-food prices, in contrast, were a mere 1. 9 per cent higher than a year before.

But rapid economic growth is the right direction, even if some of the remaining poor are suffering from high food prices.

The non-governmental organization ActionAid says biofuels are responsible for as much as one-third of the recent increase in food prices.

Some of the elements that drove up food prices two years ago are still in play, said Zoellick.

Now oil prices have fallen and the speculation frenzy has cooled off, food prices have also fallen by up to 50 per cent.

A new report from the USDA looked at the body mass index (BMI) of children and how it changed in response to food prices.

The price of this policy is now being felt in rapidly rising food prices.

The FAO's food summit in Rome is the first global response to a 71 per cent increase in food prices during the past two years.

The index is now at its highest level since the FAO started measuring food prices in 1990.

In February 2008 similar deadly protests in Mozambique were part of a worldwide wave of angry protests against soaring food prices.

The most obvious was the ban on a ceiling for food prices until they reached an extraordinary level.

The doubling of food prices in many emerging economies in the past year hits the poor hardest, fuelling poverty, inequality and resentment.

That would curb food prices, benefiting the poor and easing India's stubborn inflation.

Food prices, accounting for nearly a third of that CPI basket, are increasing at more than 5 per cent.

As food prices soared, agricultural markets started to break down under political pressures.

Food prices have risen sharply in recent years, dealing a major blow to the poor. This has a direct effect on diet and health.

Much of the pressure is from rising world food prices, which are a bulky item in consumer-price indices.

Chinese officials say that the measures are only temporary and food prices are being "monitored" , not frozen.

Latest government figures show food prices have climbed at twice the rate in Britain compared with Europe over the past three years.

However, economists warn higher food prices are likely to endure and add to rising energy costs in fuelling wider inflationary pressures.

"The fact we're having higher commodity prices here will have an impact around the world on food prices, " Lapp said.

The article says a modest rise in food prices would help boost the morale of a large number of farmers.

THE PRESIDENT: In recent weeks, many have expressed concern about the significant increase in global food prices.

The recent rise in inflation was caused mainly by higher food prices as a result of severe winter weather in northern China.

Again, the financial crisis temporarily severed this link, but energy prices and food prices seem likely to be closely linked in the future.

Internationally, overall food prices have risen 83 percent in three years, according to the Bank.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called a special meeting to discuss the recent rise in global food prices.

If you're a long-term investor, the rise in food prices is one of the safest trends you can invest in.

In recent months, rising food prices have fueled a shortage of this subsidized bread, leading to long lines and short tempers.

It does nothing to reduce our fossil fuel usage (many scientists say that it increases usage) and it drives up food prices.

The nexus between high energy and food prices is unlikely to be broken, and will be exacerbated by global climate change.

Consumer price inflation is also rising, thanks to higher food prices, and so a stronger currency might be a good way to stop overheating.

Food prices, which account for one-third of the basket of goods used to calculate China's CPI, surged 11 percent year-on-year.

A rise in food prices is especially sensitive because it would be felt most strongly in the poor countryside.

Food prices have been hit by adverse weather during harvests around the world.

Food prices, a major component of the consumer price index, rose 6. 8% from a year earlier in July, up from the 5. 7% rise in June.

The measures have helped raise food prices, thinned profits and increased the cost of bribing border guards.

The strong impact of food prices on general inflation serves as a useful reminder of what a poor country China still remains.

Zoellick said there is no quick fix to resolving volatile food prices, but food security has now become a global security issue.

But some analysts believe the long-term risk of higher food prices is exaggerated.

Food prices were down as well, primarily due to a big drop in fresh vegetable prices.

Inflation has ticked up, in part because of food prices, in other Asian countries in recent months.

This optimism replaces the Malthusian pessimism that resurfaced in the wake of the unusual increases in food prices in the early 1970s.

United Nations conference on rising food prices ended with an agreement to invest more in agriculture.

High food prices added to the difficulties of the global poverty reduction efforts and affected regional stability.

They conflated high food prices with greater food price volatility, which is best defined as variance around the food price level.

Short supply and high demand for fruits and grains created historic bursts in food prices around the world.

Rising food prices might be one thing on the minds of ThankgivingDaymeal planners this year.

Economists say the imports reduce local food prices, decrease productivity and increase dependency among the people.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said help is needed for countries in which sharply higher food prices are causing hunger.

When food prices outpace inflation they shift real income away from the poor.

There has been a serious rise in food prices this year.

Inflation is now being driven mostly by food prices, which are rising at an annual rate of over 11%.

That in turn has cut the amount of maize being used for food production and so contributed to rising food prices.

The February stimulus package was badly designed, and its anaemic effects offset by soaring oil and food prices.

Food prices have rocketed more than 70 percent so far, indicated a report by Caijing.

Soaring world food prices have put a crippling burden on Africa as a net food importer.

Aid agencies report an increase in food prices is pushing many moderately poor families over the edge.

Rising food prices are a reality for the whole world, but they have the biggest impact on the poorest and most vulnerable populations.

To the extent that food prices have been pushed up by one-off supplyfactors, they should flatten later this year, causing inflation to fall.

They are suffering from the increasing food prices, " said a business reporter with a Rangoon business weekly. "

Authoritative source, the National Development and Reform Commission will introduce a "combined" to control food prices rising too fast.

It may force UN agencies, their budgets already under strain from soaring food prices, to divert help from other needy places.

But if drought conditions worsen and food prices keep rising, the wheat farmers of Henan are likely to push for some rain-rocket action.

Unless there is a steep fall in oil and food prices soon, there is a strong possibility of stagflation in the US next year.

Mixed signals to a Fed concerned that higher gas prices and food prices will constrain consumer spending.

Global rice prices have increased more than 50 per cent so far this year and most other food prices are up sharply.

Rising food prices can serve as an aggravating factor in any nation where civil and political instability have arisen.

High inflation indicates high demand pressure behind rising food prices rather than weather-related factors as house noted earlier.

And with food prices soaring, Zoellick also advocated a New Deal for Global Food Policy.

Far from being the drivers of higher food prices, India and China were innocent bystanders.

Because food looms so large in the budgets of the poor, high world food prices have a severely regressive effect in their toll.

Most crops have been bountiful enough this year to cause even retail food prices to level off after a frightening winter-spring rise.

Talk of price controls is in the air, to curb increases in food prices in particular.

Meanwhile, he predicted energy and food prices will increase, possibly leading to inflation by the year's end.

High food prices might even be considered a good thing from the standpoint of overall global economic efficiency.

China raised interest rates earlier this year to tackle inflation, particularly in food prices, that threatened instability.

Unlike core inflation, the headline measure includes fuel costs, which rose sharply, as well as food prices.

Soaring energy and food prices, which have racked up a string of record highs in recent days, are walloping consumers and businessesalike.

Beijing Capital International Airport , a key travel hub for international visitors, plans to lower food prices at its restaurants .

The government is closely watching food prices, but does not expect damage from the quake to affect the cost of food nationwide.

Those peaks are indeed extreme, but the long-term trend in food prices is upward.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says food prices in Asia remain high despite a brief drop in April.

Higher food prices add more strain to import bills that have often already been stretched by higher energy prices .

Even food prices are up only 1. 4% from a year earlier, while petrol prices are well below their peak of 2008.

Despite the recent rise in food prices, Mr Schulte says, in real terms, food prices are below where they were in 1975.

Absent a return to global recession, I think the upward trend in food prices is going to continue.

Falling energy and food prices have pushed down global inflation, and that will continue.

Food prices remain the biggest driver of headline inflation, accounting for about a third of the index.

What with high food prices, environmental degradation and faltering green policies, people are again worrying that the world is overcrowded.

Indeed, demand for corn to make ethanol is already increasing food prices. Using corn starch to make hydrogen could exacerbate the problem.

Rising fuel and food prices are worrying consumers all over Europe.

The current surge in world grain and soybean prices, and in food prices more broadly, is not a temporary phenomenon.

Rising food prices have been the main cause, with the cost of food up 11. 7% in the year to March.

The nerd had no idea how food prices had risen, so a day's shopping soon brought him down to earth.

Although the government has slowed economic growth to stem inflation, August food prices rose 13. 4% from a year earlier.

Food prices are inherently volatile, depending on unpredictable factors like weather conditions.

These factors, coupled with falling world food stockpiles have all contributed to the dramatic worldwide rise in food prices.

Higher global food prices have also led to higher local food prices, particularly for rice and wheat.

With a harsh winter coming, uncertainties remain for fresh food prices.

But that rise is almost entirely due to a jump in food prices, particularly of pork.

Separately, the April producer price index, which gauges prices at the wholesale level, rose driven by growth in food prices.

A company spokesman said in an email that food prices are a challenge.

It is the acceleration of a trend which has already seen food prices double in the last 20 years.

And there's little question that sky-high food prices have been an important trigger for popular rage.

If China pushes U. S. food prices higher, tensions between the two countries may escalate.