Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

2007–08 world food price crisis

Index 2007–08 world food price crisis

World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the first and second quarter of 2008, creating a global crisis and causing political and economic instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. [1]

188 relations: Abidjan, Agreement on Agriculture, Agribusiness, Agricultural subsidy, Algae fuel, AllAfrica.com, Ammonia, Ammonia production, Angela Merkel, Aquifer, Associated Press, Ban Ki-moon, Bill Clinton, Biofuel, Biomass, Brasília, Bushel, Carrying capacity, Cartel, Cellulosic ethanol, CGIAR, Chicago Board of Trade, Chokwe, Mozambique, Climate change, Cocoa bean, Commodity, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commodity market, Commodity price shocks, Common Agricultural Policy, Contango, Crop rotation, Cultured meat, Cyclone Nargis, Dakar, Demand shock, Democracy Now!, Developed country, Developing country, Dhaka, Diammonium phosphate, Economic bubble, Economic stability, Economy of Africa, Economy of Asia, Editora Abril, El Mahalla El Kubra, Environmental vegetarianism, Ethanol fuel in Brazil, Famine, ..., Feeding America, Felipe Calderón, Fertilizer, Financial Times, Fodder, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food prices, Food riot, Food security, Food speculation, Food vs. fuel, Food waste in the United Kingdom, Fossil fuel power station, Free market, Futures contract, George W. Bush, Gleaner Company, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Great Recession, Green Revolution, Greenhouse gas, Group of Eight, Grupo Bimbo, Haber process, Hedge fund, High-Level Conference on World Food Security, Human overpopulation, Hunger, Hunger in the United Kingdom, Hunger in the United States, Intensive farming, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, International crisis, International Fertilizer Industry Association, International Food Policy Research Institute, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Monetary Fund, International wheat production statistics, IRIN, Irrawaddy Delta, Island Press, Issues relating to biofuels, Jacques Diouf, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, Kerala, Least Developed Countries, List of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom, List of riots, List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate, Lists of disasters, Maize, Malnutrition, Malthusian catastrophe, Maputo, Martin Khor, Martin Wolf, Mature technology, Melamine, Murray–Darling basin, Natural-gas processing, Neweurasia, North–South divide, OECD, OREC, Ouagadougou, Overconsumption, Overseas Development Institute, Oxfam, Pakistan Army, Paul Biya, Paul Collier, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Population dynamics, Population growth, Potash, Potassium chloride, President of Mexico, Price controls, Price of oil, Rapeseed, Raul M. Gonzalez, Reuters, S&P GSCI, San Joaquin Valley, Sergio Apostol, Social protection, Societal collapse, Soil erosion, Somali Civil War (2006–2009), Soybean, Stem rust, Storm surge, Subprime mortgage crisis, Sulfuric acid, Supply and demand, Survivalism, Sustainable agriculture, The Australian Financial Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Hindu, The Independent (Bangladesh newspaper), The Navhind Times, The New York Times, The New York Times International Edition, The Philadelphia Trumpet, The Standard (Hong Kong), The Times, The Times (South Africa), The Washington Post, Third World Network, Tropospheric ozone, United Press International, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of Agriculture, Urea, Value added, Veja (magazine), Water scarcity, World Bank, World Bank Group, World Food Day, World Food Programme, World oil market chronology from 2003, World population, World population estimates, World Socialist Web Site, World Summit on Food Security 2009, World Trade Organization, Xinhua News Agency, Yangtze River Delta, 2000s commodities boom, 2000s energy crisis, 2006 North American heat wave, 2008 Central Asia energy crisis, 2008 global rice crisis, 2010–12 world food price crisis. Expand index (138 more) »

Abidjan

Abidjan is the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire and is one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Abidjan · See more »

Agreement on Agriculture

The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Agreement on Agriculture · See more »

Agribusiness

Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Agribusiness · See more »

Agricultural subsidy

An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to agribusinesses, agricultural organizations and farms to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Agricultural subsidy · See more »

Algae fuel

Algae fuel, algal biofuel, or algal oil is an alternative to liquid fossil fuels that uses algae as its source of energy-rich oils.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Algae fuel · See more »

AllAfrica.com

AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and AllAfrica.com · See more »

Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Ammonia · See more »

Ammonia production

Ammonia is one of the most highly produced inorganic chemicals.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Ammonia production · See more »

Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel (Kasner, born 17 July 1954) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Angela Merkel · See more »

Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Aquifer · See more »

Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Associated Press · See more »

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon (born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Ban Ki-moon · See more »

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Bill Clinton · See more »

Biofuel

A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Biofuel · See more »

Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Biomass · See more »

Brasília

Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Brasília · See more »

Bushel

A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Bushel · See more »

Carrying capacity

The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Carrying capacity · See more »

Cartel

A cartel is a group of apparently independent producers whose goal is to increase their collective profits by means of price fixing, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Cartel · See more »

Cellulosic ethanol

Cellulosic ethanol is ethanol (ethyl alcohol) produced from cellulose (the stringy fiber of a plant) rather than from the plant's seeds or fruit.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Cellulosic ethanol · See more »

CGIAR

CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food-secured future.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and CGIAR · See more »

Chicago Board of Trade

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established on April 3, 1848, is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Chicago Board of Trade · See more »

Chokwe, Mozambique

Chokwé, and earlier known as Vila Trigo de Morais, is a rural town and capital of Chokwe District in the province of Gaza in Mozambique.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Chokwe, Mozambique · See more »

Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Climate change · See more »

Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Cocoa bean · See more »

Commodity

In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Commodity · See more »

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent agency of the US government created in 1974, that regulates futures and option markets.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Commodity Futures Trading Commission · See more »

Commodity market

A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Commodity market · See more »

Commodity price shocks

Commodity price shocks are times when the prices for commodities have increased suddenly.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Commodity price shocks · See more »

Common Agricultural Policy

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Common Agricultural Policy · See more »

Contango

Contango is a situation where the futures price (or forward price) of a commodity is higher than the anticipated spot price at maturity of the futures contract.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Contango · See more »

Crop rotation

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Crop rotation · See more »

Cultured meat

Cultured meat, also called clean meat, synthetic meat or in vitro meat, is meat grown from in vitro animals cell culture instead of from slaughtered animals.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Cultured meat · See more »

Cyclone Nargis

Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis (نرگس) caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during early May 2008.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Cyclone Nargis · See more »

Dakar

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Dakar · See more »

Demand shock

In economics, a demand shock is a sudden event that increases or decreases demand for goods or services temporarily.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Demand shock · See more »

Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Democracy Now! · See more »

Developed country

A developed country, industrialized country, more developed country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Developed country · See more »

Developing country

A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Developing country · See more »

Dhaka

Dhaka (or; ঢাকা); formerly known as Dacca is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Dhaka · See more »

Diammonium phosphate

Diammonium phosphate (DAP) (chemical formula (NH4)2HPO4, IUPAC name diammonium hydrogen phosphate) is one of a series of water-soluble ammonium phosphate salts that can be produced when ammonia reacts with phosphoric acid.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Diammonium phosphate · See more »

Economic bubble

An economic bubble or asset bubble (sometimes also referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania, or a balloon) is trade in an asset at a price or price range that strongly exceeds the asset's intrinsic value.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Economic bubble · See more »

Economic stability

Economic stability is the absence of excessive fluctuations in the macroeconomy.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Economic stability · See more »

Economy of Africa

The economy of Africa consists of the trade, industry, agriculture, and human resources of the continent.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Economy of Africa · See more »

Economy of Asia

The economy of Asia comprises more than 4.5 billion people (60% of the world population) living in 49 different nation states.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Economy of Asia · See more »

Editora Abril

Editora Abril is a major Brazilian publisher and printing company and one of the biggest media holdings in Latin America. The company was founded in 1950 by Victor Civita in São Paulo and is now part of Grupo Abril. Civita had initially founded his publisher as Editora Primavera, publishing an unsuccessful comic magazine named in Brazil Raio Vermelho. The following year, Civita changed its name to Abril - referencing the month in which spring begins on the northern hemisphere - - and published its first title, Donald Duck, in Brazil called Pato Donald, which continues to run to this date. Abril's first magazine lead Civita to claim "It all started with a duck", parodying Walt Disney's declaration that "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by Mickey Mouse. Under its name it publishes titles like AnaMaria, Tititi, Minha Novela, Sou+Eu!, Quatro Rodas, Veja, Veja Rio, Veja São Paulo, Nova, Placar, Claudia, Boa Forma, Manequim, and Exame, as well as the Brazilian editions of Disney comics, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Women's Health, Runner's World, and Playboy. It also owns the Brazilian MTV and cable company Abril Grafica. In May 2006, Naspers acquired a 30% interest in Editora Abril. On the internet, Abril owns the most popular website aimed to women, named MdeMulher, with 5 million visitors monthly.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Editora Abril · See more »

El Mahalla El Kubra

El Mahalla El Kubra (المحلة الكبرى) – commonly shortened to – is a large industrial and agricultural city in Egypt, located in the middle of the Nile Delta on the western bank of the Damietta Branch tributary.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and El Mahalla El Kubra · See more »

Environmental vegetarianism

Environmental vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism or eating a plant-based diet based on the indications that animal-based industries are environmentally destructive or unsustainable.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Environmental vegetarianism · See more »

Ethanol fuel in Brazil

Brazil is the world's second largest producer of ethanol fuel.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Ethanol fuel in Brazil · See more »

Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Famine · See more »

Feeding America

Feeding America is a United States-based nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Feeding America · See more »

Felipe Calderón

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, GCB, R.E. (born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2006, to 30 November 2012.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Felipe Calderón · See more »

Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Fertilizer · See more »

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Financial Times · See more »

Fodder

Fodder, a type of animal feed, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Fodder · See more »

Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food and Agriculture Organization · See more »

Food prices

Food prices refer to the (averaged) price level for food in particular countries or regions or on a global scale.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food prices · See more »

Food riot

Food riots may occur when there is a shortage and/or unequal distribution of food.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food riot · See more »

Food security

Food security is a condition related to the availability of food supply, group of people such as (ethnicities, racial, cultural and religious groups) as well as individuals' access to it.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food security · See more »

Food speculation

Food speculation is betting on food prices in financial markets.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food speculation · See more »

Food vs. fuel

Food versus fuel is the dilemma regarding the risk of diverting farmland or crops for biofuels production to the detriment of the food supply.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food vs. fuel · See more »

Food waste in the United Kingdom

Food waste in the United Kingdom is a subject of environmental, economic and social concern that has received widespread media coverage and been met with varying responses from government.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Food waste in the United Kingdom · See more »

Fossil fuel power station

A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Fossil fuel power station · See more »

Free market

In economics, a free market is an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Free market · See more »

Futures contract

In finance, a futures contract (more colloquially, futures) is a standardized forward contract, a legal agreement to buy or sell something at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Futures contract · See more »

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and George W. Bush · See more »

Gleaner Company

The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Gleaner Company · See more »

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino professor and politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 until 2010, as the 10th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, as the deputy speaker of the 17th Congress and a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga since 2010.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo · See more »

Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Great Recession · See more »

Green Revolution

The Green Revolution, or Third Agricultural Revolution, refers to a set of research and the development of technology transfer initiatives occurring between the 1930s and the late 1960s (with prequels in the work of the agrarian geneticist Nazareno Strampelli in the 1920s and 1930s), that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Green Revolution · See more »

Greenhouse gas

A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Greenhouse gas · See more »

Group of Eight

The G8, reformatted as G7 from 2014 due to the suspension of Russia's participation, was an inter-governmental political forum from 1997 until 2014, with the participation of some major industrialized countries in the world, that viewed themselves as democracies.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Group of Eight · See more »

Grupo Bimbo

Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V., known as Bimbo, is a Mexican multinational bakery product manufacturing company headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Grupo Bimbo · See more »

Haber process

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Haber process · See more »

Hedge fund

A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Hedge fund · See more »

High-Level Conference on World Food Security

The High-Level Conference on World Food Security was a conference held in Rome on 3–5 June 2008 under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and High-Level Conference on World Food Security · See more »

Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Human overpopulation · See more »

Hunger

In politics, humanitarian aid, and social science, hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Hunger · See more »

Hunger in the United Kingdom

Chronic hunger has affected a sizable proportion of the UK's population throughout its history.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Hunger in the United Kingdom · See more »

Hunger in the United States

Hunger in the United States is an issue that affects millions of Americans, including some who are middle class, or who are in households where all adults are in work.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Hunger in the United States · See more »

Intensive farming

Intensive farming involves various types of agriculture with higher levels of input and output per cubic unit of agricultural land area.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Intensive farming · See more »

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

The is an independent think-and-do-tank, engaged in the provision of information, research and analysis, and policy and multistakeholder dialogue, as a not-for-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development · See more »

International crisis

The term international crisis is widespread term without a single common definition.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International crisis · See more »

International Fertilizer Industry Association

The International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) is a nonprofit organization that represents the global fertilizer industry, on issues related to the promotion of plant nutrients, improvement of the operating environment of the member companies and the collection and compilation of industry information.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International Fertilizer Industry Association · See more »

International Food Policy Research Institute

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an international agricultural research center founded in the early 1970s to improve the understanding of national agricultural and food policies to promote the adoption of innovations in agricultural technology.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International Food Policy Research Institute · See more »

International Fund for Agricultural Development

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (French: Fonds international de développement agricole; FIDA) (Italian: Fondo Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Agricolo) is an international financial institution and a specialised agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in rural areas of developing countries.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International Fund for Agricultural Development · See more »

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of "189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world." Formed in 1945 at the Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international payment system.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International Monetary Fund · See more »

International wheat production statistics

The following international wheat production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT database, older from International Grains Council figures from the report "Grain Market Report." The quantities of wheat in the following table are in million metric tons.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and International wheat production statistics · See more »

IRIN

IRIN (formerly Integrated Regional Information Networks) is a news agency focusing on humanitarian stories in regions that are often forgotten, under-reported, misunderstood or ignored.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and IRIN · See more »

Irrawaddy Delta

The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Irrawaddy Division, the lowest expanse of land in Myanmar that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 290 km to the south at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Irrawaddy Delta · See more »

Island Press

Island Press is a nonprofit, environmental publisher based in Washington, D.C., that specializes in natural history, ecology, conservation, and the built environment.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Island Press · See more »

Issues relating to biofuels

There are various social, economic, environmental and technical issues with biofuel production and use, which have been discussed in the popular media and scientific journals.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Issues relating to biofuels · See more »

Jacques Diouf

Jacques Diouf (born 1 August 1938) is a Senegalese diplomat who was Director-General of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 1994 to 31 December 2011.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Jacques Diouf · See more »

Jacques-Édouard Alexis

Jacques-Édouard Alexis (born 21 September 1947) is a Haitian politician.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Jacques-Édouard Alexis · See more »

Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Kerala · See more »

Least Developed Countries

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is a list of developing countries that, according to the United Nations, exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Least Developed Countries · See more »

List of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom

This list of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom presents various renewable resources such as crops for food or fuel, livestock and wood with accompanying information being given on its production and trade by the United Kingdom.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and List of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom · See more »

List of riots

This is a chronological list of known riots.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and List of riots · See more »

List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate

This is a list of all sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and List of sovereign states and dependencies by total fertility rate · See more »

Lists of disasters

The following are lists of disasters.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Lists of disasters · See more »

Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Maize · See more »

Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Malnutrition · See more »

Malthusian catastrophe

A Malthusian catastrophe (also known as Malthusian check or Malthusian spectre) is a prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production - that there will be too many people and not enough food.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Malthusian catastrophe · See more »

Maputo

Maputo (formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976) is the capital and most populous city of Mozambique.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Maputo · See more »

Martin Khor

Martin Khor (born 1951 in Penang, Malaysia) is the Executive Director of the South Centre (an intergovernmental organisation of developing countries based in Geneva, Switzerland) since 1 March 2009.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Martin Khor · See more »

Martin Wolf

Martin Harry Wolf, CBE (born 1946) is a British journalist who focuses on economics.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Martin Wolf · See more »

Mature technology

A mature technology is a technology that has been in use for long enough that most of its initial faults and inherent problems have been removed or reduced by further development.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Mature technology · See more »

Melamine

Melamine is the organic compound with the formula C3H6N6.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Melamine · See more »

Murray–Darling basin

The Murray–Darling basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Murray–Darling basin · See more »

Natural-gas processing

Natural-gas processing is a complex industrial process designed to clean raw natural gas by separating impurities and various non-methane hydrocarbons and fluids to produce what is known as pipeline quality dry natural gas.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Natural-gas processing · See more »

Neweurasia

neweurasia is a network of weblogs about Central Asia and the Caucasus.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Neweurasia · See more »

North–South divide

The North–South divide is broadly considered a socio-economic and political divide.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and North–South divide · See more »

OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and OECD · See more »

OREC

The Organisation of Rice Exporting Countries (OREC) describes a project of a small group of South-East Asian countries to create a homonymous organisation.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and OREC · See more »

Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou (Mossi) is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Ouagadougou · See more »

Overconsumption

Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Overconsumption · See more »

Overseas Development Institute

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues, founded in 1960.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Overseas Development Institute · See more »

Oxfam

Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Oxfam · See more »

Pakistan Army

Pakistan Army (پاک فوج Pak Fauj (IPA: pɑk fɒ~ɔd͡ʒ); Reporting name: PA) is the land-based force of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Pakistan Army · See more »

Paul Biya

Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo, 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Paul Biya · See more »

Paul Collier

Sir Paul Collier, (born 23 April 1949) is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Paul Collier · See more »

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is a newspaper in the Philippines.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Philippine Daily Inquirer · See more »

Population dynamics

Population dynamics is the branch of life sciences that studies the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems, and the biological and environmental processes driving them (such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration).

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Population dynamics · See more »

Population growth

In biology or human geography, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Population growth · See more »

Potash

Potash is some of various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Potash · See more »

Potassium chloride

Potassium chloride (KCl) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Potassium chloride · See more »

President of Mexico

The President of Mexico (Presidente de México), officially known as the President of the United Mexican States (Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and government of Mexico.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and President of Mexico · See more »

Price controls

Price controls are governmental restrictions on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Price controls · See more »

Price of oil

The price of oil, or the oil price, (generally) refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent ICE, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis Crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil, Isthmus and Western Canadian Select (WCS).

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Price of oil · See more »

Rapeseed

Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape, oilseed rape, (and, in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola), is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Rapeseed · See more »

Raul M. Gonzalez

Raul Maravilla Gonzalez (December 3, 1930 – September 7, 2014) was the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and was the Secretary of Justice of the Philippines.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Raul M. Gonzalez · See more »

Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Reuters · See more »

S&P GSCI

The S&P GSCI (formerly the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index) serves as a benchmark for investment in the commodity markets and as a measure of commodity performance over time.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and S&P GSCI · See more »

San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and San Joaquin Valley · See more »

Sergio Apostol

Sergio Apostol (born on January 17, 1935) is a Filipino politician.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Sergio Apostol · See more »

Social protection

Social protection, as defined by the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development, is concerned with preventing, managing, and overcoming situations that adversely affect people’s well being.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Social protection · See more »

Societal collapse

Societal collapse is the fall of a complex human society.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Societal collapse · See more »

Soil erosion

Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Soil erosion · See more »

Somali Civil War (2006–2009)

The Somali Civil War was an armed conflict involving largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and Somali troops from Puntland versus the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union (ICU), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Somali Civil War (2006–2009) · See more »

Soybean

The soybean (Glycine max), or soya bean, is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Soybean · See more »

Stem rust

The stem, black, and cereal rusts are caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis and are a significant disease affecting cereal crops.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Stem rust · See more »

Storm surge

A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Storm surge · See more »

Subprime mortgage crisis

The United States subprime mortgage crisis was a nationwide banking emergency, occurring between 2007 and 2010, that contributed to the U.S. recession of December 2007 – June 2009.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Subprime mortgage crisis · See more »

Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (alternative spelling sulphuric acid) is a mineral acid with molecular formula H2SO4.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Sulfuric acid · See more »

Supply and demand

In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Supply and demand · See more »

Survivalism

Survivalism is a primarily American movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who are actively preparing for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Survivalism · See more »

Sustainable agriculture

Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Sustainable agriculture · See more »

The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review (sometimes abbreviated to AFR) is an Australian business and finance newspaper published by Fairfax Media six days a week.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Australian Financial Review · See more »

The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Christian Science Monitor · See more »

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Globe and Mail · See more »

The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Guardian · See more »

The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Hindu · See more »

The Independent (Bangladesh newspaper)

The Independent is an English-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Independent (Bangladesh newspaper) · See more »

The Navhind Times

The Navhind Times is an English language newspaper in Goa.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Navhind Times · See more »

The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The New York Times · See more »

The New York Times International Edition

The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The New York Times International Edition · See more »

The Philadelphia Trumpet

The Philadelphia Trumpet is a free of charge monthly magazine published by the Philadelphia Church of God, also available online.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Philadelphia Trumpet · See more »

The Standard (Hong Kong)

The Standard is an English free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation in 2012 of 200,450.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Standard (Hong Kong) · See more »

The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Times · See more »

The Times (South Africa)

The Times was a South African daily newspaper and an offshoot of The Sunday Times, to whose subscribers it was delivered gratis; non-subscribers paid R2.50 per edition in the early years.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Times (South Africa) · See more »

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and The Washington Post · See more »

Third World Network

The Third World Network (TWN) is an international research and advocacy organisation.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Third World Network · See more »

Tropospheric ozone

Ozone (O3) is a constituent of the troposphere (it is also an important constituent of some regions of the stratosphere commonly known as the ozone layer).

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Tropospheric ozone · See more »

United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and United Press International · See more »

United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and United States Agency for International Development · See more »

United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and United States Department of Agriculture · See more »

Urea

Urea, also known as carbamide, is an organic compound with chemical formula CO(NH2)2.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Urea · See more »

Value added

In business, the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the unit profit.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Value added · See more »

Veja (magazine)

Veja (English: see, look) is a Brazilian weekly news magazine published in São Paulo and distributed throughout the country by media conglomerate Grupo Abril.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Veja (magazine) · See more »

Water scarcity

Water scarcity is the lack of fresh water resources to meet water demand.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Water scarcity · See more »

World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Bank · See more »

World Bank Group

The World Bank Group (WBG) (Groupe de la Banque mondiale) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Bank Group · See more »

World Food Day

World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Food Day · See more »

World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Food Programme · See more »

World oil market chronology from 2003

From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under $25/barrel.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World oil market chronology from 2003 · See more »

World population

In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion people as of May 2018.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World population · See more »

World population estimates

This article lists estimates of world population, as well as projections of future developments.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World population estimates · See more »

World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is an international socialist news site that is the online news and information center of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Socialist Web Site · See more »

World Summit on Food Security 2009

The World Summit on Food Security took place in Rome, Italy between 16 and 18 November 2009.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Summit on Food Security 2009 · See more »

World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and World Trade Organization · See more »

Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English) or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Xinhua News Agency · See more »

Yangtze River Delta

The Yangtze River Delta or YRD is a triangle-shaped metropolitan region generally comprising the Wu Chinese-speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province and northern Zhejiang province.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and Yangtze River Delta · See more »

2000s commodities boom

The 2000s commodities boom or the commodities super cycle was the rise, and fall, of many physical commodity prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, chemicals, fuels and the like) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and 2000s commodities boom · See more »

2000s energy crisis

From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation-adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under US$25/barrel.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and 2000s energy crisis · See more »

2006 North American heat wave

The Summer 2006 North American heat wave was a severe heat wave that affected most of the United States and Canada, killing at least 225 people and bringing extreme heat to many locations.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and 2006 North American heat wave · See more »

2008 Central Asia energy crisis

The 2008 Central Asia energy crisis was an energy shortage in Central Asia, which, combined with the severe weather of the 2007-08 winter (the coldest since 1969) and high prices for food and fuel, caused considerable hardship for many.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and 2008 Central Asia energy crisis · See more »

2008 global rice crisis

The 2008 Global Rice Crisis occurred between January and May 2008, the international trading price of rice jumped dramatically, increasing more than 300% (from USD $300 to $1,200 per ton) in just four months.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and 2008 global rice crisis · See more »

2010–12 world food price crisis

Following the 2007–2008 world food price crisis and a short lull in high prices during 2009, food prices around the world again started to rise in 2010.

New!!: 2007–08 world food price crisis and 2010–12 world food price crisis · See more »

Redirects here:

2007 food crisis, 2007 food price crisis, 2007-2008 world food price crisis, 2007-2008 world food price rises, 2007–08 World food price crisis, 2007–2008 world food crisis, 2007–2008 world food price crisis, 2007–2008 world food price rises, 2008 food crisis, 2008 food price crisis, Food price crisis, Global food crisis, World food crises 2007-08, World food crisis, World food price crisis.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_world_food_price_crisis

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »