US Economy: Producer Prices, Minus Food and Energy, Climb Bloomberg - 50 minutes ago By Courtney Schlisserman May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Prices paid to US producers, excluding food and fuel, rose twice as much as forecast in April, tightening the ...
World Food Programme accuses Pakistan of stockpiling food Daily Times, Pakistan - 17 hours ago By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: Pakistan is listed by the World Food Programme as a country that stockpiles food which it refuses to sell to the UN agency so ...
UPDATE 1-World Bank: food prices to stay high but mkts intact Reuters India, India - 10 hours ago He said global food markets were working and had not lost their ability "to fix themselves". "It's better to have an imperfect market than a perfect ...
Europe Readies for Nasty Food Fight Deutsche Welle, Germany - 10 hours ago Stabilizing food prices across Europe needs to be a top priority, Europe's agriculture ministers agree. The hard part will be deciding how to best reform ...
West Africa to spend more on farming as food costs bite Reuters South Africa, South Africa - 2 hours ago "These measures ... will ultimately create food self-sufficiency and enable the region to eat what it produces and produce what it eats," it said in a ...
Bush administration defends food-based biofuels The Associated Press - 18 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is defending its decision to push food-based biofuels as food costs rise at home and abroad, saying the renewable ...
EU Braces for a Food Subsidies Battle Wall Street Journal - 12 hours ago By JOHN W. MILLER BRUSSELS -- Rising global food prices are prompting European Union members to rethink the bloc's $75 billion annual farm subsidies. ...
ECOWAS earmarks $100ma year for food crisis AFP - 4 hours ago The ministers also urged ECOWAS to assist in the coordination of bulk purchases of basic food items for a group of member-states in the short term -- thus ...
Food tax cuts, export bans not sustainable for Africa Reuters South Africa, South Africa - 10 hours ago By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Tax cuts and export bans are not a sustainable strategy against rising food prices in Africa and could instead hinder the ...
