Al Jazeera English
| Mar 27, 2013
Subsidized bread is the stuff of life for tens of millions of Egyptians struggling to live on less than $2 a day but with the economy in severe trouble, the government is running out of cash for imported wheat. Public anger is rising once again as...
Newsy
| Dec 22, 2012
While much of America's attention has been on the looming "fiscal cliff", which would have serious repercussions on American taxpayers, another legislative stalemate might have families worried. Congress failed to pass a new farm bill this year, c...
Russia Today
| Nov 26, 2012
Thousands of dairy farmers on Monday protested low prices for their product, choking traffic in the Belgian capital with their tractors and spraying European Union headquarters and police with milk. One group started a fire in the street, but d...
Voice of America
| Aug 22, 2012
As the worst drought in decades dries up U.S corn supplies, some are seeing the virtues of sorghum, a crop that originated in Africa. Sorghum, a cereal grass, is a minor part of the America's harvest today. But, as the climate changes, experts bel...
ABC News (Australia)
| Aug 10, 2012
Global food prices have risen 6 per cent in July as extreme weather hits key food producing regions such as America's abundant grain belt. But the fear is that things could get worse before they get better.
— Nov 30, 2012 at 01:19 am
— May 9 at 12:28 pm
...a severe drought and dry weather plagued other producers. After falling at the start of 2013, prices have been rising again in the past three mo...
— Apr 12 at 02:09 am
...Apple prices were down by a third and the cost of kumara fell 19%. In the year to March, food prices fell by 0.4% led by lower prices for dairy ...
— Apr 11 at 09:30 pm
...months. Food prices spiked over the summer of 2012 fuelled by a historic drought in the United States and dry weather in other major producers. ...