Food prices are soaring.

Food prices had responded to growing demand.

After falling for more than 30 years, food prices have recently soared.

Grain prices have more than doubled since 2004, and prices for most other foods have increased significantly.

Now, attention has now turned to food.

Sky high oil and food prices added to the pain, and thus to the downturn.

Fourteen countries attended to discuss food price inflation, energy needs, etc.

ROME The prices of many staple foods increased dramatically during 2007 2008, creating a food crisis for many poor and developing countries.

But falling core inflation (which excludes volatile energy and food prices) also points to weak aggregate demand.

Soaring food prices before the global financial crisis provided a warning, as does the slowing rate of growth of agricultural productivity.

At the same time, there has been a notable deterioration in underlying core inflation, which strips out food and energy prices.

Recent food and energy price shocks have pulled the world up short.

The young man helped the old lady load the groceries into her car.

As food prices rise, so is hunger and poverty.

Moreover, money markets, especially in Europe, remain traumatized by the festering global credit crunch. Record high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.

If that wasn t enough, the No side has also been able to associate the EU with rising fuel and food prices as the campaign draws to a close.

By contrast, the problems faced today high energy and food prices and a crumbling financial system have, to a large extent, been brought about by bad policies.

Record high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.

Food has become more plentiful and affordable, especially in the developing world, where calorie availability has increased by 40 per person over the past 40 years, while food prices have more than halved.

The struggle to meet rising food and energy prices is hard enough.

Increasing worries about global warming, and its effects on food prices, or about the cold and snowy winter in the northern hemisphere and its effects on heating fuel prices, are contagious stories.

Countries that import currently subsidized food will be worse off.

Uzbekistan should be growing food to feed its large population instead.

While these factors undoubtedly placed upward pressure on food prices, they alone cannot explain the steep hikes.

Lembaga berwenang dapat mewajibkan agar persentase biofuel yang dicampur bahan bakar fosil dinaikkan jika harga pangan turun dan diturunkan jika harga pangan melonjak.

Yes, sharply rising food prices are an important factor in boosting headline inflation in Asia.

Over the past year, the price of fuel, food, and commodities rose alarmingly.

This was a faster response than some other countries have made to the global food crisis.

Soaring food and fuel prices and major natural disasters played an important role in undermining financial markets, household purchasing power, and even political stability.

Permintaan akan produk produk pertanian yang ditujukan kepada petani petani miskin akan tetap solid meskipun harga pangan merosot, dan konsumen pun akan terlindungi dari lonjakan harga yang ekstrim.

Yet the human population s growth and increasing affluence continue to push up demand for food, feed, and fiber.

Countries, like the US, with food stamp programs clearly need to increase the value of these subsidies in order to ensure that nutrition standards do not deteriorate.

Will they be able to put food on the table after this year s terrifying rise in food prices?

The rise in food prices has exposed the downside of economic interdependence without global transfer and compensation schemes.

And it is not likely to disappear soon, though food prices are moderating for the moment.

Their biggest demands secure jobs, faster growth, low food prices are not necessarily compatible, and they may require policies that inflict pain.

The best way to deal with the problem is to subsidize food for the poor we should not cut the price we pay farmers for growing it.

Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices.

In the meantime, restaurateurs are complaining that, as a result of increasing demand, prices are rising even on local goods.

This increase put pressure on businesses and consumers, and was a major factor in the increase in world food prices.

First, inflationary pressure will grow in already overheating emerging market economies, where oil and food prices represent up to two thirds of the consumption basket.

They are neither less safe nor less natural than other common foods.

There are three main reasons to believe that speculation was not the main driver of the recent food price surge

Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world, and food subsidies account for approximately 2 of GDP.

But the challenge is to sustain the progress by 2050, demand for food will have nearly doubled.