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  • June 2008

    • Export Bans Push Food Costs Even Higher

      New York Times  |  Jun 30, 08 7:23 AM CDT

      Export Bans Push Food Costs Even Higher

      (Newser) - Alarmed by high food prices and shortages worldwide, some 29 countries are banning or reducing exports of foods to make sure they have enough at home. Such limitations pose a threat to countries that rely on imports, forcing prices up further, the New York Times reports. What’s more, the restrictions are in turn fueling private hoarding. "People are in a panic, so they are buying more and more—at least, those who have money are buying,” a Philippine rice vendor tells the Times. More »

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      food prices  • exports  • food shortage  • rice  • World Trade Organization.  • food scare

  • May 2008

    • Thailand Plans OPEC-Style 'Rice Cartel'

      Bangkok Post (Thailand)  |  May 1, 08 9:54 AM CDT

      Thailand Plans OPEC-Style 'Rice Cartel'

      (Newser) - The prime minister of Thailand is exploring the idea of setting up a rice price-fixing cartel with four other governments in southeast Asia, including the military dictatorship of Burma. The Bangkok Post reports that Samak Sundaravej wants to establish an OPEC-style collective of producers that will influence the market for rice, whose rapidly rising price has resulted in protests and hunger riots. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • food prices  • Thailand  • Samak Sundaravej  • rice  • rice prices

  • April 2008

    • Another Key Shortage: Fertilizer

      New York Times  |  Apr 30, 08 10:02 AM CDT

      Another Key Shortage: Fertilizer

      (Newser) - One of the less touted factors behind the global food crisis is a shortage in chemical fertilizer, which has helped boost crop yields dramatically and particularly benefited the developing world. But while growing demand is unlikely to be met for many years, the environmental impact of producing and using chemical fertilizers is significant and negative, the New York Times reports. More »

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      food prices  • farming  • corn  • crops  • developing countries  • rice  • food supply  • fertilizer

    • UN May Cut Food Rations for Schoolkids

      Reuters  |  Apr 19, 08 12:38 PM CDT

      UN May Cut Food Rations for Schoolkids

      (Newser) - Food rations for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren may be cut because of surging crop prices that have widened the World Food Program’s funding gap to $750 million, Reuters says. The UN food aid agency also blamed the situation on high fuel prices and reductions in new crop plantings. “The world’s misery index is rising,” the program’s top exec warned. More »

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      United Nations  • food prices  • farmer  • crops  • wheat  • World Food Program  • rice

    • Crisis Looms as Rice Prices Soar

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 6, 08 2:21 PM CDT

      Crisis Looms as Rice Prices Soar

      (Newser) - Rice feeds half the world's population, but this year there isn't enough to go around and prices have risen by 50% over the last two weeks alone. Population growth is outpacing production, and stocks are at a 30-year low after droughts decimated harvests in China and Australia. Countries are banning rice exports and punishing hoarders to prevent looming food riots, the Guardian reports. More »

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      climate change  • India  • McDonald's  • exports  • Asia  • consumer prices  • drought  • Bangladesh  • rice  • food riots  • rice prices  • wheat prices

  • February 2008
  • November 2007

    • Starchy Foods Increase Diabetes Risk

      Reuters  |  Nov 27, 07 3:05 AM CST

      Starchy Foods Increase Diabetes Risk

      (Newser) - African-American and Chinese women whose diets are high in starchy foods like white rice are at bigger risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, researchers have discovered. The good news is that eating whole-grain foods can help reduce the risk, according to two studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine . As an added bonus, those foods contain magnesium, which can help reduce blood pressure. More »

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      public health  • diabetes  • blood pressure  • wheat  • rice  • black women  • carbs  • bread  • grains  • Chinese women

  • July 2007

    • Scientists Race to Save Rice Crops

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 29, 07 7:09 AM CDT

      Scientists Race to Save Rice Crops

      (Newser) - While much of the world focuses its attention on oil, 1,000 people in a lab outside Manila are worrying about the other staple the modern world depends on: rice. Because of drought, floods, and overproduction, Asian rice yields are flatlining, the Journal reports; as a result, the price of the world's most eaten foodstuff has shot up 70% since 2001. More »

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      India  • farming  • drought  • Philippines  • innovation  • rice  • famine  • Manila

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