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Chart of the United States stock to use ratio of soybeans, maize and wheat, from 1977 to 2007, and projected to 2016. United States Department of Agriculture, September 2007. World food price index, 1990–2012. Record high prices occurred during the food price crisis followed by another surge in prices since 2010.
With the onset of the Great Recession, reduced demand for oil caused the price to fall to $39 per barrel in December 2008. [4] The 2007–2008 world food price crisis saw corn, wheat, and rice go up by a factor of three when measured in US dollars.
Food prices have increased a lot, due to a lack of arable land. One of the main reasons for the loss of agricultural land was the high value offered by the production of biofuels. Food prices, rising since 2002, ascended from 2006, reaching a peak during the first quarter of 2008. In one year the average price of food rose by about 50%.
A food price crisis may refer to changes in the food marketplace that result in food prices that interfere with food security. These events can be both local to one country or region, or international involving the whole food system. Recent international events described as food price crises include: 2007–2008 world food price crisis
Growth of inflation rate was the result of increasing food prices in the world and essential share of the inflation fluctuations came on variability of food prices, as far as the share of food is relatively high in consumer basket of Georgia. In 2011, IMF estimated current account balance of Georgia was −1.489 BN USD. [38]
Prices in restaurants are rising across the spectrum, from top-notch eateries to fast food chain Wendy's, which has raised the price of its quarter pound burger by 4-8 cents in the past year.
As of December 2007, 37 countries faced food crises, and 20 had imposed some sort of food-price controls. In China, the price of pork jumped 58% in 2007. In the 1980s and 1990s, farm subsidies and support programs allowed major grain exporting countries to hold large surpluses which could be tapped during food shortages to keep prices down.
A list of companies, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies (government-sponsored enterprises), and/or non-profit organizations involved in the various economic and financial crises of 2007–2008.