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July 18, 2008 |
Corn loses 11% in week, erasing June gains
MarketWatch
Corn futures for December delivery fell 21 cents, or 3.2%, to end at $6.29 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, the lowest since May 30, when heavy rains started inundating cornfields in the Midwest. Futures have dropped 11.4% this week. |
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July 04, 2008 |
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
Guardian
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. |
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May 30, 2008 |
U.S. faces criticism over biofuel policy
Int'l Herald Tribune
The United States is preparing to walk into a buzz saw of criticism over its biofuels policy during a meeting of world leaders to discuss the global food crisis in the coming week. |
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May 26, 2008 |
Why Bush vetoed Farm bill: WTO doesn't like it
Reuters
Several countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) criticized the new U.S. farm bill on Monday for raising farm support when the WTO is trying to reach a deal to cut agricultural subsidies. |
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May 15, 2008 |
Experts divided on how to retool how the world gets food
Miscellaneous
Sitting in a Mexico City office, dressed in a pressed white shirt, Gerardo Sanchez seems a world away from his herds of goats and fields of beans. |
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May 14, 2008 |
How World Bank/IMF destroyed agriculture in Honduras
Bloomberg
Fidencio Alvarez abandoned his bean and corn farm in southern Honduras because of the rising cost of seeds, fuel and food. After months of one meal a day, he hiked with his wife and six children to find work in the city. |
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May 14, 2008 |
U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
Miscellaneous
The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries. |
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April 25, 2008 |
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
New York Sun
The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels. |
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April 23, 2008 |
The Role of Speculators in the Global Food Crisis
Speigel Online
Commodity speculation spread long ago from standard products like oil and gold to anything edible and available for trade on the Chicago Futures Exchange. These days there are futures contracts for everything from wheat to oranges to pork bellies. |
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April 18, 2008 |
Rice joins oil in all-time-high price spikes
Globe and Mail (UK)
U.S. rice futures set a fresh record high on Friday, surging by more than 4 per cent as a scramble to bolster stockpiles of Asia's staple food showed little signs of abating. |
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