Food Price Rise Will Affect ‘Millions,’ FAO Economist Says
Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), on Friday “warned of a ‘worrying rise’ in food prices which will affect millions of people following unexpected shortfalls in major cereals owing to bad weather in 2010,” Agence France-Presse reports…
January 10, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: affect-millions, agriculture, bad-weather, diet, fao, food-prices, major-cereals, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, people-following, worrying-rise
FAO Report Highlights ‘Alarmingly’ High Food Price Increases, Forecasts Food Import Bills Could Exceed $1T In 2010
International food import bills could exceed $1 trillion in 2010, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday in its Food Outlook report (.pdf), which found that wheat and other food staple prices have increased “alarmingly” over the past year, the Associated Press reports (11/17)…
November 18, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agriculture, fao, food, food-import, food-staple, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, outlook, over-the-past, past, past-year, wednesday
Global Food Prices Continue Upward Trend, But Relatively Stable Cereal Prices Could Prevent Riots, FAO Economist Says
“Global food prices rose in October” and the U.N.
November 4, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agriculture, fao, food-prices, level-since, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, reuters, said-on-tuesday, tuesday
Global Food Prices Continue Upward Trend, But Relatively Stable Cereal Prices Could Prevent Riots, FAO Economist Says
“Global food prices rose in October” and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index increased “for the fifth month in a row,” the FAO said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The index is at its highest level since July 2008…
November 4, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agriculture, fao, its-highest, level-since, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, price, reuters, said-on-tuesday, tuesday
At FAO Special Meeting, Delegates Recommend Addressing Root Causes Of Food Price Escalation
“Delegates at a special U.N.
September 28, 2010 · by admin · in Nutritional News · Tags: blamed-the-hikes, diet, experts-agreed, fao, food-crisis, friday, futures-markets, hikes, moscow-times, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com