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.
The rising cost of food
Resources
Tight supplies, changing weather patterns and rising demand in emerging economies have all contributed to rising food prices, pointing to a long-term, structural change
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
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Ethiopia stockpiles grain
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
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
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
