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Prospects bright for Thai Vegetable Oil as demand soars
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
Prospects bright for Thai Vegetable Oil as demand soars
A whole collection of market factors seems to be enhancing the prospects for Thailand’s largest soybean-based animal-feed manufacturer and soybean-oil producer, Thai Vegetable Oil (TVO).
There is strong demand for biofuel in the wake of skyrocketing oil prices, stocks of soybeans are currently tight, there is the possibility of an increase of Bt8.50 a litre in the domestic retail price of soybean oil and floods have hit the soybean-producing areas of the US. All of this suggests soybean prices will remain high.
The Other Food Crisis: Food as a weapon
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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The Other Food Crisis - Worldnews.com
Since the beginning of time, food has been used as a weapon to either control or starve people into submission. The Americas’ was no different. The early European colonizers burned and destroyed Indigenous crops and other food sources, such as wild animals that were hunted and poached to near extinction levels. During the American Revolution and U.S. Civil War, it was common practice for armies to forage off of farms and the surrounding countryside. The Atlanta Campaign, in which entire warehouses of food, produce, cotton, and other items that sustained civilian populations were burned to the ground, is only one of many examples.
Related article about prices and shortages: Yes, we will have no bananas
Thai benchmark rice price rises to US$1,000 a ton
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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Thai benchmark rice price rises to US$1,000 a ton - The China Post
Thai benchmark rice price rises to US$1,000 a ton
Thailand Plans OPEC-Style ‘Rice Cartel’
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Thailand Plans OPEC-Style ‘Rice Cartel’ - Newser
Thailand Plans OPEC-Style ‘Rice Cartel’
More Here:Cambodia says rice cartel would ensure global food security
Asian states feel rice pinch
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Asian states feel rice pinch
Asian countries have been struggling to cope as the cost of rice has reached record levels.
The price of the staple crop has risen by as much as 70% during the last year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), with increases accelerating in recent weeks.
The World’s Growing Food-Price Crisis
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
National food summit in the Phillipines
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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Full story here: Manila Bulletin Online
President Arroyo will keynote the summit.Over 1,000 people from the government and private sector, including members of Congress and officials of various government agencies, regional field units of the DA, and local government units (LGUs) are attending the conference set at the Fontana Leisure Park at Clark.
Thailand may slow exports to ease “rice unrest”
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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Full story here: Thailand may slow exports to ease “rice unrest” - MarketWatch
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Thailand may slow rice exports to control soaring domestic food prices in a move that could further raise the cost of rice in Hong Kong, according to a media report Thursday.
Nearly 90% of Hong Kong’s rice imports come from Thailand.
Charin Hansuebsai, managing director of Thailand’s Rice Exporters Association, said rising rice prices had already created “rice unrest” in Thailand, although the world’s largest rice exporter had sufficient stocks, the South China Morning Post reported.
The report came after India, another major rice producer in the region, earlier this week banned exports of all types of white rice, other than highly-priced, premium quality basmati. Vietnam also curtailed rice exports to cool soaring prices in the domestic market. Cambodia banned rice exports, while Egypt has suspended exports until October, according to news reports.
Sense a theme here? Can you spell FOOD CRISIS?
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Full Story: ABS-CBN News Online (Beta)
29 bishops want 1.3M has. of large haciendas distributed
By ANGELO GUTIERREZ
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Twenty-nine Catholic bishops, including six archbishops, have collectively asked Congress to urgently extend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), while introducing reforms in the agrarian reform program directed at poverty and the looming food crisis in the country.
Dishing out rice: Rice shortages begin to appear in Asia
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
Dishing out rice. More than 2-million tonnes of rice will be sold cheap in five-kilogramme bags, but to stop hoarding, buyers will need to produce their house-registration book. Published on April 2, 2008, The world rice crisis will see the government selling cheap grain to the poor. But, to stop them from hoarding the bargain rice, they’ll have to show their household registration book, it says. International rice prices are skyrocketing. Some countries, like India, have banned exports to make sure its people are fed. Here, Deputy Prime Minis-ter and Commerce Minister Mingkwan Sangsuwan says the government must make sure the less well off don’t go hungry. The household-registration-book demand is to make sure the unscrupulous don’t take advantage of others.
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