As mentioned above, this rising price of food in the future has a knock-on effect on the real price of food now.
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Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.
This has also had a negative effect on the distributors of food to grocery stores.
In recent years commentators have noted the existence of the so-called Delia Effect, whereby her endorsement of a food product or cooking utensil, be it sea salt, vegetable bouillon or a balloon whisk, sees shoppers falling over themselves in a buying frenzy.
Despite the pending lifting of the grain export ban, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, the Central Bank of Russia does not expect domestic food prices to rise in response to more of Russian agribusiness shipping grains abroad instead of serving the local market.
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We don't yet know which species will benefit, and which will suffer in response to the changes, but because each species plays a specific ecological role on the tundra, the downfall of one species or proliferation of another could have a domino effect that disrupts the tundra's delicate food web.
Their scientists know that the only significant effect of increased CO2 in the atmosphere has been to improve global agricultural output, as CO2 is plant food, or oxygen to plants.
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He was punished, in effect, for daring to offer food independently of the state-organised effort.
The tastiness and package size of a food product can have an effect on satiety and how much a person ultimately consumes.
No technological change would have more effect on the living standards of struggling Americans than improvements in energy and food, which dominate the economy and drive up prices.
Drugs, food and habitual behaviors all have a direct effect on the biology of stress.
To drive this point home, allow me to highlight the effect that biodiversity loss will have on something that is of immediate concern to everyone: food security.
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However, Australia's ABC national broadcaster says households are expected to see consumer prices - including food - rise by an average of 0.7% due to the effect of the carbon prices on large emitters.
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In short order, the ensuing lack of electricity would cause a devastating ripple effect on our telecommunications, sanitation and water, transportation, food and health care sectors and the Internet.
When Scarmeas' group looked at the individual components of the diet, they found a stronger association between the overall diet and brain damage prevention than with any individual food in the diet, suggesting that the combination all of the elements may be producing the effect, Scarmeas said.
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As Katrina demonstrated, if the electricity goes off for any protracted period of time, there is a cascading ripple-effect which takes down the means by which we communicate, get food and water, access financial resources, receive medical services, dispose of sewage and move from one location to another.
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