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Export Bans Push Food Costs Even Higher

29 nations move to keep more food at home

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

More about:  food prices • exports • food shortage • rice • World Trade Organization. • food scare

Thailand Plans OPEC-Style
'Rice Cartel'

PM wants to control market with neighbors, including Burma

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

More about:  Burma • Myanmar • Thailand • food prices • Samak Sundaravej • rice • rice prices

 Another Key Shortage: Fertilizer 

Prices skyrocket, ingredients scarce as growing population demands more food

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

More about:  food prices • farming • corn • crops • developing countries • rice • food supply • fertilizer

UN May Cut Food Rations
for Schoolkids

Soaring food prices raise 'world's misery index,' group says

Reuters Reuters Apr 19, 08 12:38 PM CDT
(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 »

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

 Crisis Looms as Rice Prices Soar

Countries ban exports, chastise hoarders

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

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

Boom Time on Heartland Farms

US farmers strike it rich satisfying ethanol, export demands

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Feb 15, 08 2:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The US economy may be teetering on a precipice but agriculture is enjoying what one industry analyst is calling a "golden age" after decades of decline, with bountiful harvests of crops and profits. The boom is fueled by the soaring demand from ethanol producers and to fill grain orders from China and India, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

Starchy Foods Increase
Diabetes Risk

But adding whole grains to the diet improves the odds

Reuters Reuters Nov 27, 07 3:05 AM CST
(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 »

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

Scientists
Race to Save Rice Crops

Floods, droughts, warming threaten world's most vital food

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

More about:  India • farming • innovation • Philippines • drought • rice • famine • Manila

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