Add schools to the list of places hit hard by rising food prices.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the Group of Eight summit to agree on a "comprehensive package of measures" to tackle the fallout from soaring food prices, according to commentary published Sunday.
Europe and the U.S. must reconsider their biofuel policies because of rising food prices around the world, aid officials and food policy experts said Thursday.
World food prices are set to fall from current peaks in the coming years but will remain "substantially above" average levels from the past decade, a report said Thursday.
Siegmund Nissel, a violinist who fled his native Germany as a child to escape Nazi persecution of Jews and later helped found the Amadeus String Quartet, has died at age 86.
The Bush administration on Wednesday was downplaying the role of biofuels production in rising food prices.
Forced to pay for once-free sandwich toppings and twice as much for some steak cuts, shoppers are wondering whether higher grocery bills and restaurant tabs truly reflect the trickle down of a global rise in food prices.
The U.S. and European Union should reconsider a shift to biofuels that has helped increase food prices worldwide by turning agricultural land over to energy crops, American economist Jeffrey Sachs said Monday.
Indian politicians have lambasted President Bush for saying the South Asian country's increasing prosperity is partly to blame for the rising price of food around the world.
Developed nations should stop paying agricultural subsidies to encourage biofuel production because the payments are making staple foods more expensive, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.
President Rene Preval announced a drop in the price of rice Saturday in a bid to defuse anger of rising food prices that fueled days of deadly protests and looting across Haiti.
Food prices are set to rise around the globe after years of decline, with climate change making it harder for the world's poorest to get adequate food, according to a report released Tuesday.
The cost of food spiked right on cue last year when economists warned that the country's thirst for ethanol would drive up the cost of the grain used to feed livestock for meat, dairy and other foods.
This morning, your bowl of cereal and milk probably cost you 49 cents. Last year, it was 44 cents. By next year, it could be 56 cents. It's enough to make you cry in your cornflakes.
"It disgusts me that the people who can least afford to buy the food have to pay more money than everyone else does," Barnaby said. That's a serious accusation and the Problem Solvers probed further...
You know those times when the printer runs out of paper midway through a job, but you don't realize it? You pick up the document and start reading, then wonder where the rest of it went.
Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices.
Rottlady seeded an excellent article on Alabama's plans to charge obese employees more for their health insurance. Kudos to Rottlady for bringing this to our attention.
As prices for crude oil and other commodities ease, Americans have gotten a small dose of relief at the gas pump. But don't expect less pain at the grocery counter.
A very readable behind the scenes look what's behind the rise in food prices. Article explains who's making a killing and who's getting robbed blind. From Dollars & Sense magazine.
We have had to endure the continual upward spiral in commodity prices for months on end -- finally there is some softening in prices. While prices are still a long way from 2007 levels, they are down markedly.
Gas prices are above $4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39% last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global economy appears on the verge of a TKO, a triple whammy from energy, agriculture, and climate-change trends.
The real US economy is more like this: To gauge what most of us are really experiencing on a day-to-day basis, one might imagine economic reporters relying on a monthly "pizza index" instead of the Consumer Price Index.
Recent calls to reduce the renewable fuels standard (RFS) seem like an easy and immediate fix to world food shortages.
IT wasn't too long ago that a loose coalition of anti-ethanol forces was bemoaning the futility of its fight.
European antitrust enforcers raided the Italian offices of grain giants Cargill Inc. and Bunge Ltd. in a probe of the grain and cereals business as surging food prices around the world spark widespread protests.
Skyrocketing food prices will limit people's diets in Finland, according to some experts. In particular, they worry fewer vegetables will be served at meals.
Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75 percent, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Levees on the cresting Mississippi River held on Sunday as the worst U.S. Midwest flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop losses may boost world food prices for years.
The Conference Board, a private business-backed research group, announced on June 24 that its index of consumer confidence for the month sank to a 16-year low. The drop in the U.S.
The food crisis is much in the news. It is also on the minds of the biotech industry, which is using rising food worries to suggest, contrary to the evidence, that genetically engineered, or GE, crops are needed to help the world feed itself.
For about four weeks I found myself stopping to eat more frequently at fast food chains like Burger King, Wendy's and Taco Bell. I've been trying to save money now that things are tighter, but the economy wasn't the only reason.
Last week, new consumer price data released by the US Labor Department confirmed what most shoppers already suspected: Food prices, which took their biggest one-month leap in nearly two decades in April, rose even further in May. Energy costs, too, went up last month.
An international farming group on Saturday urged countries to step up domestic food production by providing more facilities to small-scale farmers in a bid to help end the global food crisis.
How much do we REALLY know about what happened during The Great Depression?
There's a reason why the tub of ice cream you bought last week looks a tad smaller than ones you bought last summer. It is.
Moving to stem rising inflation and civil discontent, President Felipe Calderon and Mexican industrialists announced an agreement Wednesday to freeze prices on more than 150 food items.
The prices of most food products around the world have risen after basic commodities such as wheat, rice and corn hit record highs in recent months.
By Ira Karen Apanay, Senior Reporter The world prices of major food items, such as grain and vegetable oils, have increased more than 60 percent over the last two years, the US Department of Agriculture reported.