food price Archive

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    A food pricing inquiry - by frog



    Sue Kedgley set off a bit of a flurry with her parliamentary line of questions yesterday calling for a pricing inquiry into supermarkets and a possible supermarket code of conduct: Sue Kedgley: Does she agree with Consumer New Zealand that with a concentrated market dominated by a very small number of players, consumers need better [...] read more
    June 27, 2008 10:57 pm - 20 Comments
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    The price of food - by frog



    I’ve talked a couple of times in the recent weeks about the global price of food, and its links to peak oil. At the moment the world is experiencing dramatically increasing food prices after decades of falling prices. Interestingly in New Zealand the Department of Statistics latest figures confirm that peak food may be an [...] read more
    December 20, 2007 9:12 am - 22 Comments