date:Aug 28, 2013
he U.S.D.A. said.
The U.S.D.A. said food prices have been rising faster than prior to 2006 years because of a number of interrelated factors: spikes in food and energy prices at the commodity level, major weather events, global commodity-market shocks and the Great Recession, which began in 2008 in the United States, and has been followed by an anemic recovery.
As a result, annual changes in the all-food C.P.I. ranged from a minimum 0.8% gain in 2010 to a 5.5% jump in 2008. This highly variab