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By Michael Haddon World food prices increased by around 1% in March, the United Nation's food body said Thursday, driven by soaring prices of dairy products. The Food and Agriculture Organization's food price index, which measures the monthly change ...

Assuming more normal weather conditions than in 2012, global wheat production in 2013 is expected to reach 695 million tonnes, 5.4 percent up from last year's harvest and just some 6 million tonnes short of the 2011 record level. And in 2013, coarse ...

GLOBAL - The FAO Food Price Index moved up in April for the second consecutive month. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 215.5 points in April 2013, up two points (1.0 per cent) from its revised March value of 213.2 points and from April last year.

GLOBAL - Low stocks and abnormal production conditions have led to supply fears and a surge in milk prices over April, lifting the dairy price index almost 15 per cent. This volatility was largely due to drought conditions in New Zealand, which ...

Customers select food at a supermarket in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on Thursday. (AFP) | | A A REUTERS Last Update 10 May 2013 2:05 am ROME: Global food prices rose in April for a third straight month as surging dairy costs kept upward ...

World food prices rose in March as dairy costs jumped on a drought in New Zealand that hurt milk output and as a late spring in Europe delayed a production rise, the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization said. An index of 55 food items ...

1:57 am UNITED NATIONS, April 12 ? A sharp surge in price of dairy products pushed overall food cost one percentage point higher in March, UN reported Thursday, noting world wheat production remained on track to reach its second highest level ever ...

font size decrease font size increase font size The drought has sent the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's dairy price index soaring. The FAO Dairy Price Index jumped by 22 points in March to 225, one of the largest recorded changes. The ...

11 de abril de 2013, 17:34 Rome, Apr 11 (Prensa Latina) The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced today the increase of the Food Price Index (FPI) by one percent in March compared with a month before, driven mainly by an 11 percent ...