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The rising cost of food

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Darling fires first shot in CAP battle

An important battle with France and Germany about the future of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy is underway

UAE investors buy Pakistan farmland

Plan aims to increase food security

Philippines traders shun rice incentive

Private importers opt to wait for fall in prices

China’s farmers change the way they work

Beijing adjusts to surging prices and demand

Waitrose offers inflation hope

But food prices unlikely to fall

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The global food crisis

Interactive feature: Food prices have jumped almost 60 per cent in the past year. Find out how rising food prices have hit trade balances and in which countries the inflationary impact has been the highest. View our interactive map to learn more about food price related civil unrest and policy measures governments have taken in response to rapid food inflation

Global food crisis

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Rice price hits Brick Lane

Video: East London’s popular curry houses feel the heat as costs of basic ingredients rise dramatically. One business man is considering closing one of his restaurants if prices do not stabilise.

    Ethiopia stockpiles grain

    Javier Blas

    Video: Javier Blas, FT commodities correspondent, reports from Addis Ababa on the impact of rocketing grain prices and speaks to Josette Sheeran of the World Food Program

      Comment and Analysis

      Food crisis is a chance to reform global agriculture

      Martin Wolf

      Nobody knows how long these shocks will last, but they demand rapid policy changes across the globe. We must choose between fragmenting markets further and integrating them, between helping the poor and letting even more starve, writes Martin Wolf

      Global approach required to tackle food prices

      Food prices

      Completing the Doha round is critical as it would reduce trade barriers and encourage agricultural trade, writes Dominique Strauss-Kahn

      Expensive tastes: Rising costs force food up the political agenda

      Policymakers are cooling towards biofuels and GM crops as high food prices cause governments around the world to impose price freezes and export bans

      Precious grains

      As record prices for staples spark unrest around the world, an already distorted trade is being burdened with more restrictions and there is little prospect of production increases to ease the pressure

      Pakistan orders public spending cuts

      Warning over inflation threat to poor

      Call to Saudis to curb spending

      Mideast reels as hunger outgrows oil earnings

      Egyptian minister defends price rises

      India futures ban mere ‘posturing’

      Philippines delays rice auction

      Bad weather threatens US maize harvest

      Asean acts over rice prices

      Oman to build two-year rice stockpile

      Bush backs modified crops to ease crisis

      US farm lobby defends biofuel

      Suspend biofuel rules, say MPs

      UN task force to tackle global crisis

      EU food price rises seen as unjustified

      EU rejects call to limit food imports

      Rice prices fail to benefit Asian farmers

      Junta blamed for stunting Burmese output

      Europe’s CAP the ‘answer’ to food crisis

      Consensus on crops turns into acrimony