Onion prices continued to rise in India's capital New Delhi on Thursday on sustained buying by stockists amid restricted arrivals from western region due to heavy rains.

Food manufacturers have promised Mexico's government that they would freeze prices on more than 150 food products to help families cope with rising costs.

As the world’s food prices raise Canada will not remain immune. Within months the problems dealing with the rising cost of food will be appearing on the Canadian horizon reports the Bank of Nova Scotia.

UN's food and agricultural organization FAO says world must seize chance to boost agriculture as the growing food prices signal a crisis.

Alarmed by adverse impact of climate change on farming and rising food prices, the UN agencies are helping farmers in Afghanistan and Africa to increase their agricultural production.

The United Nations food agency has sounded a fresh alarm that fast rising food prices across the globe are eroding its capacity to serve millions of people already dependent on it. The U.N. secretary-general says the steeply rising price of food has developed into a global crisis, urges immediate action.

UN experts warn: long-standing conflicts set off by higher food prices are in store for the world.

Businesses in the Haitian capital reopened Monday after days of riots sparked by rising food and fuel prices. Haiti's president has announced a series of emergency aid measures in the wake of the crisis, which led to the ouster of his prime minister.

The Bush administration says it is working to provide additional food aid to hunger-ravaged countries that need it most. The initiative comes at a time when food prices have been rising sharply around the world, and many nations are complaining of severe shortages of basic goods.

Economic policy makers from all corners of the word ended their meeting in in Washington with a call for assistance to countries most affected by a recent sharp rise in food prices.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will today begin a series of hearings as part of its inquiry into grocery prices.

Top agriculture experts Sunday warned against further rises in food prices, calling for effective measures to ease the impact on society.