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Food Prices

WATCH: How Much Food Does $5 Buy Around The World?

Posted 04.22.2013 | Business

Coffee fiend? According to the BuzzFeed video below, you might want to consider moving to India then. You'll get way more bang for your buck, at least...

8 Expensive Foods To Stop Buying

Posted 02.21.2013 | OWN

By Lynn Andriani Quality ingredients are usually worth the price, but sometimes you can get away with cutting corners. Here's which expensive foods...

We Didn't Find Nemo -- We Made Him

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green
Carl Gibson

Other countries have set examples we can live up to -- Denmark went from 100 percent fossil fuel dependency to 30 percent wind power in one generation. Uruguay has a plan to generate 25 percent of their country's electricity with wind power by 2015.

Hedging Against Hunger: Our Best Bet to Avoid a Global Food Bubble

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 04.10.2013 | Home
Danielle Nierenberg

Like the dotcom burst and the subprime mortgage crash, Wall Street speculators are driving a food commodities bubble to its breaking point. If it bursts, high food prices could become the new norm, impacting wallets and bellies everywhere

What Can We Learn From Expensive Chicken Wings on Super Bowl Sunday?

Jim Yong Kim | Posted 04.07.2013 | Green
Jim Yong Kim

For many Americans, the higher price of chicken wings was bad news. But the good news that could emerge from food-price sticker shock is that more people will ask what we can do in agriculture to help stop climate change while still feeding the world.

Are Food Costs In Argentina Really What The Government Claims?

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 01.18.2013 | Latino Voices

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Six pesos a day. That's all it takes to eat in Argentina, at least according to the government. But on the streets of the ...

What Chipotle Doesn't Want You To Know

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.17.2013 | Business

The next time you go to Chipotle, you may be forced to utter three words you thought you'd never say: hold the guac. The burrito seller announced o...

How Walmart Is Devouring Our Food System (Infographic)

Stacy Mitchell | Posted 02.03.2013 | Home
Stacy Mitchell

Here's a look at how Walmart has dramatically altered the food system --Ā triggering massive consolidation, driving down prices to farmers, and leaving more families struggling to afford healthy food.

10 Food Budgeting Tips I Wish I Followed Religiously

Laura Kumin | Posted 02.02.2013 | Taste
Laura Kumin

Those who carefully plan every meal and shop as if it were a chess game hardly need my advice. These tips are for the rest of us.

Thanksgiving Food Stamp Use To Hit Record

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.21.2012 | Business

A record number of Americans will be using food stamps to get by this Thanksgiving. About 42.2 million Americans are using food stamps this Thanks...

Food Banks' Dire Warning

Reuters | Posted 01.21.2013 | Business

* High commodity prices lead to drop in gov't food donations * Food banks increase food purchases, straining resources ...

Exec: 'Food Is Too Cheap'

Posted 11.08.2012 | Home

The prices of many foods have risen considerably over the past several years, thanks to factors ranging from bad weather, pro-corn ethanol energy poli...

World Food Prices Stay High, U.N. Says

Reuters | Posted 01.08.2013 | Home

* Wheat production seen falling 5.5 pct to 661 mln T * World cereals production seen down 2.7 pct 2.284 bln T * World fo...

Finally, Some Good News About Peanut Butter!

AP | GREG SCHREIER | Posted 10.26.2012 | Home

ATLANTA -- Choosy moms and dads may be packing more PB&J in lunches this winter, when the cost of a jar of Jif or Skippy is expected to fall even as o...

Climate Change and Mideast Insecurity: The Hidden Connection

Jonathan Marshall | Posted 12.26.2012 | World
Jonathan Marshall

For all the talk of violent threats to American security in Syria and North Africa, neither candidate has connected them to a powerful contributing cause: climate change.

Catherine New

Dollar-Stretching Gets New Workout As Fiscal Cliff Approaches

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 10.11.2012 | Home

Kids don't understand adult phrases like "fiscal cliff." What they understand is that mom says no extra milk on the cereal or no second helpings of me...

Where Bacon Is Just the Beginning

Tom Arnold | Posted 12.03.2012 | Impact
Tom Arnold

For you and me, it likely means that our favorite breakfast sandwich has a higher price tag. But for the world's poorest people, even the slightest price increase can force families to sell the few assets they have and pull their children out school.

Still Crazy Hot Rogue: Weathergirl 2

A. Siegel | Posted 12.01.2012 | Green
A. Siegel

In the vein of Network and "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore", "Weathergirl" is audacious enough to explain, with the passion it merits, the seriousness of our climate situation. Enjoy the humor of and weep with the truth of Weathergirl Goes Rogue 2: Still Hot, Still Crazy.

The Drought Diet

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.20.2012 | Green
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Wendy Gordon, pioneer in the green consumer movement Scorching temperatures and persistent drought have devastated farms across the...

Eat Healthy (And Lose Weight) On Only $8 Per Day!

Donna Mincieli, PTI, RD | Posted 11.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Donna Mincieli, PTI, RD

There is this misconception that eating a healthy diet is more expensive than eating a junk diet. True, if you think loading your shopping cart with low-fat, sugar-free, low-calorie processed snacks is the answer to healthy eating and weight loss.

Global Food Price Emergency May Be Averted

Reuters | Posted 11.13.2012 | Home

(Repeats to additional subscribers) * USDA report paints less severe corn crop picture than feared * FAO says situation...

The Climate Post: Presidential Candidates, Studies Dissect Climate Change

Tim Profeta | Posted 11.07.2012 | Green
Tim Profeta

As campaigning for the November presidential election moves forward, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney spelled out their interpretations on one issue in a bit more detail than usual.

Catherine New

Bad News For Football Fans

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 09.07.2012 | Home

The official NFL season has barely started and already there is reason to cry: The era of cheap wings is over. Prices for snack staples like wings...

Catherine New

It Costs More To Be American In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 09.06.2012 | Home

Against the "better off" message pushed at the Democratic National Convention, there remain some sobering facts: It costs more to be an American in 20...

UN: Food Price Crisis Unlikely

Reuters | Posted 11.06.2012 | Home

* FAO slashes its world cereals output, stocks forecast * FAO director-general calls for action to calm markets By Cathe...