If the price of oil rises further it will make fertilisers and transport more expensive, and at the same time make it more profitable to grow biofuel crops. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to artificially control the cost of bread, maize, rice and dairy products. Next week the FAO is expected to say that global food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and that prices will remain high for years....

In view of the mining and petroleum boom in the country due to increase in the world market prices, he challenged the Mineral Resources Authority and respective Government agencies to immediately review relevant laws governing the sector to set legal and administrative framework of ensuring the industry was benefiting the landowners in terms of equity acquisition. In view of the mining and petroleum boom in the country due to increase in the world market prices, he challenged the Mineral...

But loyalties of a bipolar world change in a unipolar one, and Russia is keen to reclaim old friends in a new world order before things get too sticky. She can be contacted at sen@littlemag.com A true friend, they say, is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Like External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee being frisked at Moscow, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora s cancelling his Moscow trip after a meeting with his counterpart couldn...

A call to for energy exploration on U. Opening federal lands to oil and gas exploration won't free the country from dependence on natural gas imports but it could head off the formation of another OPEC-like cartel, according to a study to be released by Rice University researchers today. A call to for energy exploration on U. The report says the LNG imports will rise to about 30 percent by 2030 if the United States does not permit exploration in the 58 percent of federal lands now off...

There's been some solid but isolated rain across the worst hit state, NSW, in the past week and there are forecasts of some more at the end of this week as more normal spring weather patterns return with warm, moist air from the Indian Ocean moving across into Central Australia and NSW. There's been some solid but isolated rain across the worst hit state, NSW, in the past week and there are forecasts of some more at the end of this week as more normal spring weather patterns return with...

Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial (11-17) 04:00 PST Washington - -- Money troubles could be unraveling the age-old coalition of Democrats and Republicans that has preserved Depression-era farm subsidies for most of the past century, as pressure from nontraditional farm interests continues to be felt. Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial (11-17) 04:00 PST Washington - -- Money troubles could be unraveling the age-old coalition of Democrats and Republicans that has...