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Growing Australian demand puts pressure on food prices - Audio feature from the Connect Asia program 05/02/2008
 listen windows media >Food, along with fuel and housing costs are among the key factors driving up inflation in Australia. Rising food prices however, is not unique to Australia - with growing demand worldwide for grain and other basic necessities. Presenter - Sen Lam Speaker - Craig James, chief equities economist with Australian securities firm, Commsec Australian national forum to discuss food 'crisis' - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 18/01/2008
listen windows media >Last year global food prices rose by forty per-cent, leading the Food and Agriculture Organisation to warn that 37 countries are now at risk of a food crisis. Experts warn three factors have combined to ensure high prices are here to stay - growing populations, the biofuel industry and Asia's booming middle class. Presenter - Corinne Podger Speaker - Professor Snow Barlow, food researcher and climate expert at University of Melbourne Australian consumers to pay more for canned fruit - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 30/10/2007
listen windows media >Ask for directions to the cannery in Shepparton in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria and you'll be told "you can't miss it". The enormous building is indeed imposing, but it's processing less and less fresh produce. Australian farmers buy water as drought deepens - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 24/10/2007
listen windows media >With summer arriving soon in Australia, and with no sign of the drought abating, some farmers are drilling the land in the hope of finding underground water. The gamble doesn't always pay off, but there are few other options as dams dry up and water allocations are slashed. Drought drives Australian food prices up - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 26/09/2007
listen windows media >Farmers in Australia continue to feel the pain from the current drought, and consumers are also encountering much higher prices for food. Even if the drought breaks soon, Australians are being warned that the cost of food is likely to stay high in the coming months as the agricultural sector struggles to recover. Drought to being crop failure, sharp rise in food prices - Audio feature from Connect Asia program 17/09/2007
listen windows media >There are alarming predictions in Australia of rising food prices and shortages in the coming months, as crops continue to fail on inland farms because of a lack of water. For farmers in the Murray Darling basin there is added urgency to their calls for more government assistance as many prepare to shut down their farms permanently. |
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