"In some of these developing countries, prices have gone up 80% for staple food, " she added.
The ahuacate, a pebbly-skinned, pear-shaped fruit, had been a staple food in Mexico, and Central and South America since 500 B.
The price of pork, a staple food in China, soared by nearly 57% last month, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.
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Budget plans included tax rises, a drop in real wages and the end of the subsidy on tortillas, the country's staple food.
The idea of a dedicated appliance for rice makes sense when we consider that it is such a staple food in most of the world.
Rice, their staple food, costs Japanese 2.4 times what Americans pay.
Kagwanja says the military doesn't have the funding to revive the farms, and is taking a ruthless approach to increasing production of Zimbabwe's staple food, maize.
Unlike a Big Mac, The Economist is universally regarded as a staple food for the mind, is largely free from variations in quality or taste and therefore homogeneous.
So are Chinese across the country: Rice is the staple food for most of the population, so widespread cadmium exposure is another wake-up call that unaccountable government causes public health disasters.
Shares in Kraft Foods and maker of the staple food for all age groups, hit the highest price in four years this week as demand grew on guarded optimism over economic recovery.
His research suggested that the government imported half the country's staple food, and that, because of political instability and a plummeting economy, no businessmen would take on the job in the government's place.
But the sea level is rising, so much so that the nation's water has become too salty to drink and to grow vegetables, especially taro, a vegetable that was once the island's staple food.
There is nothing illegal about this, but Kenyans who don't grow their own are now paying 50% more for their staple food than they were a year ago, and double the world price, says Robert Shaw, a local economist.
The idea to get the American fast-food staple into the hands of hungry Gazans came from al-Yamama, a food delivery service that opened in the Palestinian territory a few years ago, according to The Christian Science Monitor.
Virtual water is, for this argument, the water embedded in staple and other food commodities.
Now, she says, this African-American Southern food staple is everywhere -- and served thinly sliced and fried as a bite-sized hors d'oeuvre or soup garnish.
They tuck with aplomb into a street-food supper of kushari (a local snack-food staple of pasta, lentils, tomato sauce and fried onions), bought in steaming ladlefuls from a little stall in the capital's old city.
Spices are a staple of Sri Lankan food, from the cinnamon that drew the colonising Portuguese to the chillies that they left behind.
The supposed economic savior, the European consumer, continues to show signs of falling disposable income due to the rise in prices of staple items (namely food and energy).
Who would have thought that pizza would become a staple of the Chinese fast food and casual dining industry, going against the grain of thousands of years of culinary history?
One thousand Aramark chefs have been cooking up vats of pasta and cauldrons of carbonara sauce -- and, perhaps inevitably, those pans of meatloaf of indeterminate color, that seem to be the staple of large-scale food service from school cafeterias to military mess halls.
Brought to Socotra centuries ago by sailors, they reproduced rapidly and are now a staple of island life, providing both food and income for their owners.
These investments are designed to ensure access to staple commodities and reduce exposure to global food price fluctuations and export bans, which often occur during food crises.
Often, they must spend half or more of their income on food, the bulk coming from staple grains like corn, wheat and rice.
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He says that Walmart would invest heavily in shops, create jobs, plough profits back into food-supply and cold-storage infrastructure and help to tame food inflation by keeping prices for staple foods low.
China and Thailand have responded to public discontent at rising food costs with further price controls on some staple items.
Food service a good example of a consumer staple led the Bloomberg World index, posting a whopping 136.48% gain over the past two weeks while consumer discretionary sectors like leisure and entertainment suffered, falling 31.21% and 41.73% respectively.
It recently launched four agro-industrial businesses supplying staple products such as milk and maize flour, and its retail-food chain, Mercal, aims to cover 60% of the market.
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