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Consumers awoke this morning to a sharp rise in the price of gasoline. By next month, they may also be facing higher prices for two other everyday items – imported cooking oil and pulses – because of the weakness of the rupee. India, the ...
May 24, 2012 at 09:24 | Source: Wall Street Journal
Global food prices have increased by 8% in the last four months since December 2011, and in March 2012 were only 6% below their February 2011 historical peak. All key food prices have increased, except for rice. Increasing international oil prices, adverse ...
May 18, 2012 at 02:21 | Source: Reliefweb.int
FOOD prices will go up as retailers are stung thousands of dollars more to re-gas their refrigerators under a carbon tax equivalent, the Opposition says. But Julia Gillard has called the claims ridiculous and reckless. Victorian MP Sharman Stone said those ...
May 23, 2012 at 12:53 | Source: heraldsun.com.au
Each year at this time, my love of fresh food is renewed. After months of buying out of season produce and having most of my fruits and vegetables shipped here from a land far, far away, I’m able to buy almost all local once again. Last Friday ...
May 24, 2012 at 14:10 | Source: Petoskey News-Review
Food prices have risen, but they are nowhere near the peak of 2008, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said. Prices then soared nearly 8 per cent because of bad weather and a global supply shortage, Mr Lim recalled on Monday. But the rate ...
May 14, 2012 at 23:12 | Source: Straits Times
"Fat taxes" would have to increase the price of unhealthy food and drinks by as much as 20% in order to cut consumption by enough to reduce obesity and other diet-related diseases, experts have said. Such levies should be accompanied by ...
May 15, 2012 at 22:42 | Source: The Guardian
After rising strongly from mid-2010 to mid-2011, food input prices have been steadily falling on international commodities markets. Further declines are expected during 2012 for key inputs including corn, wheat and cocoa, as global economic uncertainty ...
May 21, 2012 at 02:18 | Source: Transworld News
With food commodity prices spiralling upwards in a way not seen since the devastating price spikes of 2008, millions of lives literally depend upon it. And when Obama sits down to eat, he will know that. The plan as it stands this weekend is for ...
May 13, 2012 at 12:14 | Source: The Guardian
while transporting food, water and other materiel; nor did the company provide data to investigators on fuel costs, price estimates and even correct flight plans. “It is outrageous that DLA could ever be in the position of possibly overpaying ...
May 25, 2012 at 03:10 | Source: Wired News
The price of manioc - another staple food, also known as cassava - which is heavily consumed in western Côte d’Ivoire, has gone up by 70 percent. Food insecurity is most severe in the north and west, where hundreds of thousands of people were displaced ...
May 22, 2012 at 06:20 | Source: IRIN