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• 5 Ways to Save on Thanksgiving Dinner

  
  Money Talks with Stacy Johnson — Authority: 474
  Dont "starve" your budget this Thanksgiving with 5 ways to save on your Thanksgiving dinner.
  5 hours ago

• The window of opportunity on scarcity issues starts to close

  
  Global Dashboard — Authority: 517
  I’ve said before that the easing of oil and food prices that followed the credit crunch and the global downturn gave policymakers a window of opportunity to take preventive action on scarcity issues. Now, alas, I think that window is starting to close – without their having done much about it. To see why, ...
  10 hours ago

• Growers weigh into food price debate

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Horticulture body Growcom entered the simmering debate about rising Australian grocery prices today, arguing that families who wished to reduce their food bills should switch to a greater consumption of fruit and vegetables in their diet and questioning the pricing mechanisms used by retailers.Chief Advocate Rachel ...
  16 hours ago

• Food price hike

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 574
  Competition lawyer Professor Frank Zumbo studied food prices in the OECD from 2000 and found price increases in Australia at 41.3% were the third highest behind only New Zealand and South Korea. He had no doubt the evil duopoly of Coles and Woolworths was to blame. Graeme Samuel, the chairman of the ACCC, was more ...
  22 hours ago

• Food prices fall 1.5% in October as fruit and veg prices picked away in spring (Update 1)

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 547
  Food prices fell 1.5% in October from September as fruit and vegetable prices saw their usual spring fall, figures released by Statistics New Zealand show. This was the largest monthly fall in overall prices in three and a half years and followed falls of 0.7% in September and 0.9% in August, Stats NZ said. (Update 1 ...
  23 hours ago

• AFGC defends food inflation figures

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  While the latest OECD figures show food inflation has risen about 40 per cent in Australia over the past decade, Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) Chief Executive Kate Carnell highlighted that food has actually become more affordable for most Australian families due to average wage rises.The latest ABS ...
  2 days ago

• Higher food prices blamed on limited competition

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  New OECD price data has shown Australia to have the highest rate of food inflation since 2000, although it has begun to moderate over the past year.The data shows Australian food prices have risen by 41.3 per cent, higher than the other 29 nations in the survey. However, based on comparisons to 2006 figures, Australia ...
  2 days ago

• Food prices to decline after winter crop: Sharad Pawar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Bangalore, Nov 7 (IANS) Food prices will decline after the rabi crop as production of wheat, rice, pulses, oil seeds and sugarcane during the winter is expected to be higher than in the drought-hit kharif season, union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Saturday.“Cultivation of foodgrains and other essential ...
  4 days ago

• Food affordability to be further constricted: EFFP

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Speaking at the English Farming and Food Partnership’s (EFFP) sixth annual conference, Siôn Roberts EFFP’s Chief Executive warned that, despite signs that the economy will improve next year, the “new normal” for consumers of food is one that will be more constrained than over the last two decades.“The ...
  6 days ago

• How is Food Waste Adding to Global Warming and Poverty?

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Stephen William Moore There’s a simple way to reduce global warming and save money at the same time - don’t waste food. In his book, ‘Waste - The Global Scandal’, Tristram Stuart, calculates that British households consign 5.4 million tonnes of edible food to the bin each year. That’s 25% of all the ...
  1 week ago

• Bulcke says Nestle “slow on price cuts” - report

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Global food giant Nestle has admitted that it should have reacted faster to competitors’ price cuts to avoid slowing sales.Speaking during an interview with the Wall Street Journal, chief executive Paul Bulcke said the group “should have seen the dangers” of losing market share to aggressive pricing by ...
  1 week ago

• Indian Economy’s integration with rest of the world poses new challenges: Pranab Mukherjee (Part II)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  (Cont.)“On the domestic front, this year we have had sub-normal Southwest monsoons, which have obvious implications for agriculture growth and food prices. At the same time there have been widespread floods in some parts of the country. The wanton acts of terrorism in different parts of the country have kept the ...
  1 week ago

• Hedge Fund Managers Take On Wall Street and World Hunger

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 638
  In spring of 2008, my boss, hedge fund manager Mike Masters, and I were studying the effects that investors were having on commodity prices. We were shocked to uncover a truth that had implications far beyond the world of financial…
  1 week ago

• Winning in times of crisis-Understanding Supply Destruction

  
  TheMispricing — Authority: 141
  puts most businesses in front of challenges. It is however the possibility for creative, innovative Entrepreneurs as well as investors persuing brand new investment opportunities. … “investment advice” investment opportunities “Supply Destruction” acceleration deflation M3 “monetary amounts” “car ...
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• Nairobi slums: human rights black hole

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  Two million people live in this sprawling spread of squalor where sub-human standards of living, alone are a definite equivalent of human rights violation. Amnesty International’s report entitled  The Unseen Majority: Nairobi’s Two Million Slum Dwellers also outlines the gross human rights abuses, along with ...
  1 week ago

• Climate change ‘to hit food prices’

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  Soaring food prices could leave UK consumers forking out almost £6.50 for a loaf of bread and more than £18 for a pint of beer by 2030 unless urgent action is taken to avert dangerous climate change, environmentalists have claimed.…The report by Ray Hammond, who studies how future trends will affect society and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate change ‘to hit food prices’

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 135
  Soaring food prices could leave UK consumers forking out almost £6.50 for a loaf of bread and more than £18 for a pint of beer by 2030 unless urgent action is taken to avert dangerous climate change, environmentalists have claimed. … The report by Ray Hammond, who studies how future trends will affect society and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fruit and veg prices plummet in third quarter

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Inflation figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have confirmed a strong fall in the price of fruit and vegetables in the September quarter. Last week supermarket chain Coles advised that prices of fresh produce had fallen by 7.8 per cent in the third quarter, with ABS figures showing similarly ...
  2 weeks ago

• You Are What They Feed You!

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  SF Gray Panthers Newsletter, November, 2009 You Are What They Feed You! The way food is grown, controlled and marketed affects everything from cost to rising numbers of children with diabetes to environmental pollution and the waste of water resources. Lobbyists for agribusiness, an interlocking of chemical ...
  2 weeks ago

• New International Investing Era

  
  Gary A. Scott — Authority: 471
  A new international investing era could be created by a destructive scientific fundamental that is now so powerful it could overwhelm all other factors determining our wealth. This danger has such power that it could destroy most investors and much worse… end civilization as we know it. Photo from Wikepedia ...
  2 weeks ago

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