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/ 11 October 2011
G20 ministers meeting this week must take action to stop speculation on commodity markets that is fuelling food prices and hunger, say economists.
Vietnam has been contracted to sell around 100 000 tonnes of 25% broken rice to several African nations in June so far, helping to keep prices stable.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Wednesday the strong rand currency was helping to cushion the impact of higher international oil and food prices.
The South African Reserve Bank remains concerned about the effects of rising oil and food prices on the outlook for inflation, Gill Marcus says.
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/ 4 February 2011
United Nations food agencies on Friday warned that record high prices for basic commodities are helping generate unrest around the world.
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/ 3 February 2011
World food prices surged to an historic peak in January for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated UN’s food-price index.
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/ 3 February 2011
World food prices hit a new record high in January after rising for a seventh consecutive month, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says.
Food prices are set to rise as much as 40% over the coming decade amid growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production.
The global food crisis that dominated headlines in 2008 quickly faded in the US and other rich countries. Not so across the developing world.
South Africa should produce more of its own food, the National Agricultural Marketing Council said at a conference in Midrand on Friday.
Food prices at major supermarkets have increased an average of 5,5% since January, trade union Solidarity said on Sunday.
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/ 4 February 2009
Food suppliers have been asked to investigate ways of cutting costs, food retailer Pick n Pay said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 January 2009
The Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) wants the Competition Commission to probe high food and transport costs, it said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 September 2008
Global numbers afflicted by acute hunger rose from 850-million to 925-million by the start of 2008 because of rising prices, the UN’s FAO says.
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/ 4 September 2008
Cosatu considered recent protests and a national stayaway over rising food, fuel and electricity prices as major victories, it said on Thursday.
Nosimilo Ndlovu reports on community efforts to deal with the food crisis from both a South African and Malawian point of view.
Thanks to global prices hikes, life in Addis Ababa just got harder for the cappuccino crowd, writes Lemlem Tilahun.
Food riots in 2008 underscore the desperation of the poor in the face of rising hunger, but also expose public anger at unresponsive governments.
The Eastern Cape branch of the National Union of Metalworkers has called on its members to down tools on Wednesday in protest at high food prices.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda vows to fight price hikes as he tries to breathe new life into his government after a Cabinet reshuffle.
African governments trying to help their populations cope with rising food prices should target measures to help poor families and avoid waste.
The Cabinet has approved a draft framework for a national food-price agency, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday.
Soaring food prices are threatening to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in East Africa, where people are struggling to afford basic food.
About 25 000 Cosatu members started marching to Eskom’s offices in Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest against rising electricity and food prices.
Tens of thousands of workers downed tools in four provinces on Wednesday to voice their "disgust" with rising living costs.
Cosatu has called on civil society to join in a protest against rising electricity and food prices in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
Gold production was severely disrupted in parts of South Africa on Wednesday as thousands of mine workers downed tools to protest rising living costs.
Cosatu expects a total shutdown of business on Wednesday in three provinces during the second round of its planned protests against spiralling prices.
The fight against high and rising food prices will require the mobilisation of all social forces, the Gauteng Food Summit was told on Friday.
Senegal, which imports the majority of its food and all of its petrol, has been hit hard by rising food and fuel prices.
War will be declared on hunger and poverty, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) told a food seminar in Midrand on Thursday.
There is no other way to deal with rising food prices than to increase food production, Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulu Xingwana says.