Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

Shortages of natural gas increased fertilizer prices, pushing up food prices.

As a result, food prices fell somewhat.

Food prices have increased by 400 per cent.

As food prices rise, so is hunger and poverty.

Many worry that non food prices may rise higher.

The main problems were food shortages and rising prices.

Promoting food security at affordable prices through agricultural development

Unemployment soared, the currency depreciated, and food prices rose dangerously.

In February 1988, the government hiked food prices by 40 .

Investments in agriculture, such as subsidized fertilizers and seeds, increases food harvest and reduces food prices.

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

Rising food prices are an international phenomenon, and Russia s inflation is driven by the large current account surpluses and capital inflows.

The higher prices of food and energy depress real incomes further.

So it s not crazy to blame poverty on rising food prices.

In the spring of 2008, Haitians demonstrated against rising food prices.

It is not in high demand in the global food market, and thus has little impact on food prices and food security.

LONDON With food prices having doubled in the past decade, food security is back on the international agenda. How can the world produce more to feed the next billion people?

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization argues that rising food prices could lead to increasing global conflicts.

GENEVA The recent sharp spike in food prices and growing concerns about food security have sparked anxiety worldwide.

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

The continued high prices of food could strain the already low purchasing power of the chronically food insecure population.

Should they risk buying a new car when gasoline prices might soar again? Will they be able to put food on the table after this year s terrifying rise in food prices?

Now, by contrast, food and gasoline prices are rising, owing to emerging markets ongoing boom, while house prices continue to plummet.

Of course, it is not just oil prices that are high, but all commodity prices, from metals to food to lumber.

International food aid

Food prices are usually not limited in their effects to one country alone.

Food and energy prices are more likely to be affected by monetary policy.

Food prices, too, are at historical highs, contributing to poverty and political unrest.

Likewise, modern energy crops increase deforestation, displace agriculture, and push up food prices.

Boosting yields of locally grown staple foods (rather than cash crops) would increase self sufficiency and strengthen resilience when international food prices are high.

26 International Labour Organization, Statistics on occupational wages and hours of work and on food prices October Inquiry results, 2000 and 2001 (Geneva, 2002).

In particular, the volatility of food and commodity prices, including petroleum prices, is seriously denting the financing capacity of many poor countries.

Obviously, the recent increases in food prices are likely to drive the number of people vulnerable to food stress even higher.

The main deviation has been the past two years of record high food prices, caused not by climate change but by the policies designed to combat it the dash for ethanol, which put food into cars and thus upward pressure on food prices.

Currently, Russia s greatest economic concern is growing inflationary pressure, driven especially by food prices.

NEW YORK Around the world, protests against soaring food and fuel prices are mounting.

Food and Disarmament International

Meanwhile, by embracing biofuels, for example, we are essentially burning food in our cars, which drives up food prices and exacerbates hunger.

Our European Union food facility, agreed last year, is mobilizing an additional 1.5 billion for a rapid response to rising food prices.

Severe shortages of food and medical supplies could lead to famine in the country prices of basic food commodities had risen sharply.

These may be either the best country prices or perhaps even international prices, but they are not local farm gate prices.

The debate is whether prices will remain more or less where they are or decline, as food, metals, and coal prices have already done.

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

On his last article about rising food prices he gets more in depth and says