Rising Food Prices

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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'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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Coca-Cola Raising Its Prices

Posted 08.24.2011

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Coca-Cola Co plans to raise prices on its soft drinks by 3 percent to 4 percent in July, in addition to a 2 percent increase taken earlier this ye...

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How China's Growing Middle Class Is Raising Food Prices

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 07.11.2011

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BEIJING — Hunger was such a constant companion in Yao Qizhong's childhood that even now, at age 40, he'll stoop down to salvage a single clove o...

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Feeding The Future: Finding Food For 10 Billion People By 2100

Foreign Policy | Posted 07.09.2011

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The world's demographers this week increased their estimates of the world's population through the coming century. We are now on track to hit 10 billi...

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Clinton: Rising Food Prices Will Have 'Grave Consequences

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.06.2011

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ROME — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Friday that global shortages of food and spiraling prices threaten widespread desta...

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As Food Prices Rise, Many Go Hungry

Posted 05.25.2011

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"Global food prices continue to rise," begins a recent report by the World Bank. Between October 2010 and January 2011, the Bank's food price index i...

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Food: What's Really Behind the Unrest in Egypt

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Tunisia's Riots: A Warning to Regimes in the Middle East

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

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People are not so easily distracted toward foreign enemies when their own government turns on a starving population that cannot afford the rising cost of food.

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Food Prices Causing Unrest As World Governments React

Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING/SEOUL (By Niu Shuping, Tom Miles and Kim Yeonhee) - China dumped plans to import several million tonnes of expensive corn in 2011 and South Ko...

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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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Jordan First: A King's Modernization Motto Obscures a Palestinian Past and Iraqi Present.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 05.25.2011

Soon, I would learn that the "Jordan First" initiative, first launched in 2002 with the stated goals of reform and democratization, now carried a meaning much deeper.

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Grocery Outlet: A New Place To Save

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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The newest trend in penny-pinching is coming from an unlikely source: The Amish. According to The Canadian Press, Amish-run grocery outlets "are a thr...

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Rising Grocery Prices Feed A Surge At Food Banks

Los Angeles Times | David Lazarus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steven James, 43, works in finance, has multiple cellphones clipped to his belt and projects the air of a hardworking, successful sort of guy. And yet...

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Food Costs Rising Fastest in 17 Years

AP | ELLEN SIMON | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Steve Tarpin can bake a graham cracker crust in his sleep, but explaining why the price for his Key lime pies went from $20 to $25 re...

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