... area so polluted by fertilizer runoff that no aquatic life can survive there. Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food-to-fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon ...

... March. Increases in recent months have largely reflected the big surge in energy costs and, to a lesser extent, higher food prices. Excluding inflation, consumer spending would have been flat in April. Consumer prices, measured by an inflation ...

... may be able to cut back on your driving due to high gas prices, but you're not going to stop eating because of high food prices, she said. Quan just bought a couple more cans of Spam on sale and some ramen, the instant noodle dish long a staple ...

... truck and fly food around the globe, and as the search for more energy from sources such as ethanol contributes to higher food prices, new gardeners are sprouting up. Burpee Seeds, the nation's largest seed company, reported that its sales doubled ...

... across the board have done a heroic job of maintaining our market system," McKenzie said. "Consumers may be seeing higher food prices, but there have been no food shortage scares. Food is still getting to the stores," McKenzie said. "That ...

... nutritious diet dropping to one staple and cutting their meals from three to two or one a day. Experts believe that high food prices may be here to stay. Even so, we have the tools and technology to beat hunger and meet the Millennium Development ...