Countries that import food (many of them poor) benefit from the largesse of rich-world subsidies, but agricultural exporters suffer.
Capriles said he will reverse land expropriations, which he says have ruined many farms and forced Venezuela to import food after previously being a net exporter of beef, rice, coffee and other foods.
It is ridiculous to compromise indigenous food-production in any nation, since all nations will find it increasingly untenable to import food on the vast scale most currently do, in the absence of cheap oil or gas.
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Britain was thus able to concentrate on manufacturing and import its food and raw materials.
But, as Shenggen Fan of IFPRI points out, these giants do not import much food.
One of the world's wealthiest exporters cannot afford to import enough food.
Food companies are the latest target: Pedro Malan, the finance minister, has threatened to cut import barriers if food prices continue to rise.
The embargo allows some exceptions for import of US food and medicine.
The allegation itself is entirely nonsense of course: the rise in UK food prices is largely because the currency has fallen in value and we import 40% of our food.
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Inflation will increase as higher energy, food and import costs feed through to consumer prices.
The Fred should be abolished and decisions about how much canned food to import should be made by private firms.
Perhaps this is because we import much of our food and ship it around the country based upon supply or demand.
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Farming in the rest of the world will continue to get more efficient, Europe will import more and more food and the burden of supporting Europe's farmers will increase.
That is precisely what would be involved in an internationally syndicated fund to backstop ruble convertibility or to meet balance of payments requirements such as providing a cushion for increased Soviet unemployment and a food-import scheme.
Food and beverage import prices fell 3% last month, after rising 2.3% in January.
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Left-leaning economists argue that the solution to this problem is simple: the Fred should import extra shipments of canned food during hurricane season.
It doesn't have to import the bulk of its food, and when demand for agricultural commodities rises as incomes rise, Brazil is ready as the world's leading sugar, coffee, beef and chicken exporter.
Higher food prices hurt the world's poorest countries because it means they will need to pay higher import bills as they do not produce enough food at home.
The US has consistently challenged through the World Trade Organisation the European Union's reluctance to import and sell genetically modified crops and food.
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As part of the tentative agreement on prescription drugs, individuals would be allowed to personally import drugs that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration if the drugs are prescribed for personal use.
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In short, it is one stop shopping for anything you need to prepare and serve that next great Japanese meal, though check your country's import restrictions if you plan to take any food products out of the country.
He said he had bought 20 1kg bags of what he thought was diced beef from Hungarian Food Ltd in May last year, rather than import it directly.
In contrast, Mr. McCain has even proposed tax cuts here, pledging to repeal the 54 cents per gallon tariff on sugar-based ethanol, as well as sugar import quotas, which should help to lower prices for gas and food.
"Some African countries export fruit and import fruit juice, or export olives and import olive oil, simply because their past colonialists did not teach them how to process food, " he told the AFP news agency.
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