Food Prices soar to new highs as Europe battles drought
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Food Prices soar to new highs as Europe battles drought
From correspondents in Brussels
From: AP
May 28, 2011 11:55PM
A DROUGHT throughout much of northern Europe this spring is starting to hurt upcoming harvests and efforts to bring food prices down.
From beer hops in southern Germany's Bavaria to cereals in eastern England and fodder shortages in many areas, the lack of rain and abundance of sunshine is creating problems for farmers in much of Europe, officials say.
The Rome-based UN food agency FAO said its earlier hopes of a four to five per cent spike in wheat and barley production in the EU have been dashed.
World food prices have reached a historic peak this year, raising fears of a repeat of the global food emergency that led to violence and unrest in many countries in 2008.
Food Prices soar to new highs as Europe battles drought
From correspondents in Brussels
From: AP
May 28, 2011 11:55PM
A DROUGHT throughout much of northern Europe this spring is starting to hurt upcoming harvests and efforts to bring food prices down.
From beer hops in southern Germany's Bavaria to cereals in eastern England and fodder shortages in many areas, the lack of rain and abundance of sunshine is creating problems for farmers in much of Europe, officials say.
The Rome-based UN food agency FAO said its earlier hopes of a four to five per cent spike in wheat and barley production in the EU have been dashed.
World food prices have reached a historic peak this year, raising fears of a repeat of the global food emergency that led to violence and unrest in many countries in 2008.
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