The food riots of 2008 were just the shot over the bow, in my estimation.
Only after a wave of food riots did the IMF ease that "condition" for Indonesia.
Worldwide droughts are threatening to drive up food prices and possibly lead to food riots.
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Famine and food riots are already a reality in countries throughout Africa and in India as well.
We subsidize green energy to steer the economy, but spark food riots abroad.
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Food riots, political upheavals, revolts, and declarations of war are the natural consequence.
Spirited criticism of the government only re-emerged last year, when the economy crashed and food riots swept the cities.
Prices of many agricultural commodities are still below the levels that sparked food riots in poor countries around the world in 2008.
Back when oil cost three- and four-dollars-per-barrel, the increased use of ethanol was blamed for high food prices, food riots and starvation of the poor.
In 2008 and 2011, when corn prices went up to levels nearly as high as today's, the world saw a sharp rise in food riots.
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Worse, the cyclone, which hit Myanmar's main rice-growing areas, may intensify the worldwide panic over rice supplies, which has already led to food riots in many countries (see article).
The flash food riots that rippled around the globe briefly in early 2008 were likely a mere preamble to something much bigger, but how do we set ourselves up for it?
Four years ago spikes in the price of food triggered riots in 12 countries, including Egypt, and prompted Russia to ban wheat exports to conserve its own stocks.
In 2008, food shortages triggered riots across the world, from Haiti to Somalia.
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Last year, rising food prices touched off riots around the world, killing dozens of people.
"But when prices peaked in 2007-2008, and more than 20 countries faced food price-related riots, this perception began to change, " he adds.
There are a lot of things going on that have happened before energy prices going up, food inflation, spontaneous riots, troubles with the unions, violence, political unrest all of these things have happened before.
In Haiti, the prime minister was kicked out of office Saturday, and hospital beds are filled with wounded following riots sparked by food prices.
In 2010, the G-20 countries requested a consensus report from the various international agencies on how to better manage the risks of food price volatility after bread riots in two dozen countries from Brazil to Pakistan.
Rising global food prices earlier this year sparked riots in the country and led to the prime minister's ouster.
Rapid food price inflation in 2008 sparked riots in a number of countries.
The economic impact of the riots, alongside rising food prices, has "eaten up" U.S. economic aid for 2011, he notes.
It is haunted by the events of 20 years ago, after oil prices had again fallen, in which food shortages and bungled austerity measures prompted riots and looting, and hundreds of people were killed by troops.
Having seen the run up in food prices (not to mention the tortilla riots in Mexico) following the American government's moves to boost corn for fuel at the expense of food, the Europeans are suddenly having second thoughts.
The cabinet's main priority is to secure affordable food supplies throughout the archipelago, severely disrupted by riots and shortages of imports.
Countries that will receive the extra injection of aid include Haiti, where riots have broken out in recent months over high food prices.
The use of ethanol has offset a small amount of oil consumption, but it has also contributed to sharp increases in food prices that have led to hunger demonstrations, and in some cases, riots, from Haiti to Egypt.
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