Global Food Crisis Now Affects U.S.

NFL Team-by-Team Draft If leading nations stopped biofuel use this year, it would lead to a price decline in corn by about 20 percent and wheat by about 10 percent from 2009-10, said Joachim von Braun ...He and the other scientists said work should ...

It is not market rivalry that is making some of the world’s largest fast-food chains operating in Egypt jittery; it is fear of more bleak inflationary pressures amid escalating food prices that have already soared urban consumer inflation to its ...

Food prices have soared by more than 60% in the last year, sparking riots in some countries. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, has warned of "social unrest on an unprecedented scale"...Other staples such as wheat and corn have more than doubled ...

This had become a crisis for the world's most vulnerable people, including the urban poor, it said after a meeting of 27 international agency heads in the Swiss capital, Berne, to chart a solution to food price rises that have caused hunger, riots ...

AP The seemingly unstoppable climb in oil prices is helping fuel inflation in the United States and abroad. A few weeks ago, financial analysts here were certain that the Federal Reserve would try to spark the economy with another half-point cut in ...

Haiti, April 28 (UPI) -- Haiti should bolster its local food production to help the poor cope with rising food prices in the poor Caribbean nation, officials said Monday. The suggestion to produce more home-grown crops like rice and other staples ...

In a bid to address the current global food crisis, top Democrats in the US Senate are mulling an addition of $200 millions in emergency food aid as part of the Iraq war budget. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has said Democrats in the Senate are ...

Citing hunger riots in developing countries and soaring grain prices around the world, Senate Democrats called on Monday for a swift increase of $200 million in foreign food aid , on top of an additional $350 million that President Bush has ...

Tell the public that food prices are about to rise sharply, and thus prepare it for the "inevitable" rise in the cost of living. And then, when the importers, the producers and the supermarket chains raise the price of rice, oil, tahini, pasta and ...

April 28 (Xinhua) -- The Czech Republic and the United States will sign both treaties about the U.S. radar base on Czech soil in early June, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Monday...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Prague next week but ...