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High Food Prices World Wide

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
via translation machine

TREATMENT food hit the world .. And threaten «seats governance»

Wrote capitals - Reuters, precious pigment and governorates 1/4/2008
[Photo - Mohammed Saeed column bread in a village in the West you can not see the end]
Photography - Mohammed Saeed
QUEUES bread in a village in the West you can not see the end

Turning increasingly high prices of major food commodities, especially grains and agricultural crops, to a major crisis threatening the return of the spectre of hunger strikes, which probably States, new Itohac in many third world countries. Dropped from the world wheat stocks to the lowest level for 30 years, increased cereal prices, which international observers described as an end to the decades of cheap food. The initial expectations to the high price of maize by 27% in the coming years along with similar rises in rice, soybeans and oilseeds.

While Vietnam and India announced further restrictions on the export of rice, which led to the rise in the price of an unprecedented, this gave rise shadow over Southeast Asia, which depends on the diet of rice, which was considered magazine «Economist» direct threat to the political future of some rulers of the world Third, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, she is responsible for the aggravation of the crisis on what they described as «political mismanagement».

In a related crisis escalated loaf of bread yesterday, and witnessed several provinces along the queues for long distances in the early hours of the morning until midday, and increased clashes between citizens applying for a loaf of bread, while the women organized in Menya pause protest because of the crisis.

He said Major General Abdel Salam Mahgoub, Minister of Local Development, that President Mubarak receives weekly reports on production and distribution in the provinces, saying that the problem is on its way to the final solution within 3 or 4 weeks. He added during his tour yesterday to shelve city Fouad, accompanied by Justice Adli Hussein, governor Qalubia, that the state continues to support the bread.

At the level of crisis organized Ladies City After pause protest yesterday because of the lack of bread, which Ktan through Egypt - Aswan agricultural area in front of the local unit.

, And stressed that they had not been able to buy bread since last December, both bakeries or through the system of contributions for the delivery of bread houses.

«Guy p. 4»

http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=99579
 
Re: High Food Prices World Wide

Not just supply and demand
The real reason food prices are rocketing in Nepal and worldwide
DEWAN RAI


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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>India has banned all rice exports except Basmati. Pakistan has reintroduced rationing. Food riots have broken out in some African countries. The world is facing an unprecedented food shortage, and it is the poorest who are hit hardest by rising prices.
In Nepal the price of many food items have doubled in the past year (See box). Preoccupied with elections, the government seems unconcerned about the hardships suffered by millions of Nepalis.
The price of cooking oil has gone up by more than half in just three months. The prices of rice, pulses and meat have also increased significantly. India?s export ban on non-Basmati rice and wheat has worsened Nepal?s shortage (?Food insecurity?, p 2)
But this is not the only reason for the price hike. The dramatic rise in oil prices, and the trend towards bio-fuels, increased demand for food and meat and growing affluence in India and China are the other reasons for worldwide shortages.
In Nepal, traders have another reason to raise prices of commodities: to recoup money they have ?donated? to various political parties for the elections. ?Many traders have been compelled to increase the prices in order to make up for donations,? said Jyoti Baniya, general secretary of the Consumers? Protection Forum.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66></TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Dec 2007 </TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
March 2008
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Rice (kg) </TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Retail price</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Retail price
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Short grain</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 24
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Rs 30
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Mansuli </TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 32
</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 40
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Fine grain</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 41
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Rs 48
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Cooking oil (litre)

</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Mustard oil</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 102
</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 150
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Soybean oil</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 95
</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 150
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Sunflower oil </TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 90
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Rs 160
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Meat (kg)
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Mutton</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 335
</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 350
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#66cc66>Chicken</TD><TD bgColor=#66cc66>
Rs 130
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Rs 165
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Pabitra Bajracharya, president of Retailers? Association said that wholesalers are selling foodstuffs at a price higher than production cost, and the current price hikes are arbitrary and unnecessary. The fact that wholesalers are not issuing retailers with receipts is a tacit admittance of this fact.
?If we ask for a bill they refuse to sell us the goods at all. We have complained to the Department of Commerce, but no action has been taken,? Bajracharya says.
Food economist Jagannath Adhikari says Nepal is feeling the spillover effect of the food shortage in India, but adds that traders are also creating an artificial shortage to gouge customers. Adhikari told Nepali Times: ?Changing food habits are having an effect on prices, but the growing corporate control of food is starting to pose a serious threat to food security.?
The WFP reports say that summer rice production in the Mid and Far Western Regions increased by 17 percent last year, but despite these good crop yields, food prices have increased significantly leaving an estimated 3.8 million extremely vulnerable.
In these regions, average household food stocks are down by half compared to a year ago. Many areas in the Mid and Far West have had bad winter harvests and are facing growing food deficit.
?Inadequate supply and price increases in food and non-food items have had a significant impact on the overall food security situation,? the report states.:tiphat: http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/394/Nation/14672
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