High Food Prices

Here's What You Paid More For Last Month

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.13.2012

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WASHINGTON — Gas prices rose more slowly in March, keeping overall U.S. inflation mild. The consumer price index rose 0.3 percent in March, the...

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Food Prices: Good for Farmers, Bad for Everybody Else

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Cheerios, Gas Prices, High Food Prices, Campbell Soup, Farmers, Consumers, Food Prices, Ethanol Prices, Money News

If you've been to the grocery store recently, you've probably noticed the jump in prices for some basic foods. Milk and meat have both gone up nearly ...

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You're Probably Going To Be Paying More For This

AP | Posted 03.08.2012

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ROME -- International food prices have risen for the second time in two months, a U.N. agency said Thursday blaming bad weather in major exporting cou...

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Food Insecurity Here To Stay, Says UN

AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 12.10.2011

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ROME -- Prices for rice, wheat and other key foods are expected to remain volatile and possibly increase – and poor farmers and consumers partic...

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Saki Knafo

Thailand's New Rice Policy Could Lead To International Food Price Crisis, Analysts Warn

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.20.2011

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A program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is warning of a possible spike in international rice prices, a d...

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'Extreme Couponing' Inspires Cult Of Grocery Store Savers

AP | By JESSIE L. BONNER | Posted 09.06.2011

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BOISE, Idaho -- The women sat expectantly as Monica Knight told them she once routinely spent $600 a month on groceries for her family of four. Breaki...

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For A Change, Gas Cheaper On Independence Day Than Memorial

AP | Chris Kahn | Posted 09.01.2011

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(AP) NEW YORK — Call it an Independence Day discount. Gasoline prices usually peak in the summer. This year, however, they peaked a little earlie...

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Fast Food Waffles On Dollar Menu Promotion

Posted 08.27.2011

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The dollar menu is a good value for customers—but does it make sense for fast food companies? Ad Age notes that economic turbulence of the past few ...

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Why An Ice Cream Cone Now Costs $4.25

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Dairy Industry, High Food Prices, Ice Cream Price Hikes, Food Prices, Ice Cream, Ice Cream Prices, Food News

If you've gone to an ice cream parlor recently, you may have noticed that a cone (or cup) of ice cream has gotten more expensive. But before you chalk...

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French Minister: Food Price Stabilization Agreement A 'Tour de Force'

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 08.23.2011

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PARIS — The largest economies in the world agreed Thursday to a series of measures to stabilize world food prices after recent fluctuations caus...

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High Food Prices Here To Stay

AP | By RAF CASERT | Posted 08.17.2011

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PARIS -- High food prices are likely to rise even further over the next decade, putting the poor at an increasing risk of malnutrition and hunger, a w...

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China Food Costs Push Inflation To Three-Year High

AP | By ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 08.14.2011

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SHANGHAI -- China's inflation rose to its highest level in nearly three years in May, thanks largely to stubbornly high food prices, adding to economi...

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Food Price Hikes Leave Poor Moms Hungry

AP | MARGIE MASON | Posted 08.14.2011

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THUAN THANH, Vietnam — Vo Thi Quan's chopsticks needle deftly between two simple Vietnamese dishes sizzling on a hot plate. In her crude brick k...

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Mozambique Looks To Hybrid Seeds To Help Food Crisis

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 07.23.2011

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CATANDICA, Mozambique -- Peter Waziweyi is bouncing around the lush countryside of Mozambique in his 30-year-old truck, visiting his customers' maize ...

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The Urgency of Curbing Global Food Price Volatility

Tom Arnold | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Global Poor, High Food Prices, Food Prices, World Bank, Robert Zoellick, Price Volatility, Food Crisis, Food Price Volatility, Scaling Up Nutrition, World News
Tom Arnold

There is no simple solution to the food crisis. What's needed is a combination of carefully chosen and calibrated short and long term measures.

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Farmers Not To Blame For High Food Prices

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 06.04.2011

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Farmers and ethanol producers have braced for what they expect could be widespread criticism as corn prices are rising rapidl...

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Food: What's Really Behind the Unrest in Egypt

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Rubin

When 40% of your population lives on less than $2 per day, soaring food prices isn't about cutting back on luxury spending.

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It's (Partly) the Food, Stupid!

Barry Lando | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barry Lando

Fueling protests across the globe have a common factor: rocketing food prices caused by a "perfect storm" of natural disasters, rising oil prices and rapacious speculators.

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Record High Food Prices Stoke Fears For Economy

Posted 05.25.2011

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SINGAPORE/LONDON (By Neil Fullick and Peter Apps) - Record high food prices are moving to the top of policymaker agendas, driven by fears it could st...

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Food Prices Skyrocket

Posted 05.25.2011

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From The Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices rose more than expected last month as food prices surged by the most in 26 years. But ...

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Should Mexico Welcome the Invasion of 'Frankencorn?'

Elyssa Pachico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elyssa Pachico

Mexico's decision to start growing genetically modified (GM) corn is sowing nothing but trouble.

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Food Fight; Falling Corn Prices Reveal Big Food's Lies

Dave Vander Griend | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Vander Griend

When it was convenient for them, critics of the biofuels industry were quick to place blame for rising food costs on ethanol, claiming that ethanol was increasing the price of corn.

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Half Of All Food And Water Produced Worldwide Goes To Waste

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A report authored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Stockholm International Water Institute, and the International Water Ma...

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Students Discover Through DNA Testing That New York Fish Is Often Mislabeled

NYT | John Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch, say two high school students turned high-tech sleuths. In ...

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Save Money and the Environment: Cool Off Your Food this Summer

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Food Prices, Local Food, Eating Locally, Food, Eating, Green Living, Local Farmers, Green Food, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

We can use summer to consider how much better locally grown foods are, not only in taste and price, but because they help to cool the planet. Change can taste delicious.

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