food-supply

LONDON — U.K. bank regulators are launching a new type of "stress test" that forces banks to consider unlikely but potentially disastrous scenarios like a flu pandemic or disruptions to the country's food-supply chain.

For U.K. Banks, a Calamity Is Born David Enrich 2011

The currency move appeared to be part of a continuing government crackdown on private markets, which have become an essential part of the food-supply system in the chronically hungry North.

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 3, 2009 2009

Those in favor say Wal-Mart Stores and their global peers would improve food-supply infrastructure in a country where nearly 40% of fruit and vegetable production rots because of a lack of cold storage.

India's a Tough Sell Harsh Joshi 2011

Nor would Oxfam's description of the food-supply system as "bust" be too controversial.

Food: A hungry world | Editorial 2011

Denied their usual food-supply, weakened by hunger, they fell upon and devoured one another.

The Famine 2010

U.K. bank regulators are launching a new type of "stress test" to force banks to consider unlikely but potentially disastrous scenarios like a flu pandemic or disruptions to the food-supply chain.

World Watch 2011

Amid easing Western demand for the emerging world's goods, growth is slowing in countries such as China, South Korea and Brazil, where prices are being driven up by food-supply shortages, consumer demand and wage increases.

India's Inflation Is a Lesson for Fast-Growing Economies Alex Frangos 2011

But food-supply problems have also contributed to the recent spike in prices, and food has become a source of international tension.

The Great Disruption 2008

China has proven repeatedly successful in handling food-supply bottlenecks, housing bubbles, and external energy shocks separately.

Sclerosis in China 2010

But food-supply problems have also contributed to the recent spike in prices, and food has become a source of international tension.

The Great Disruption 2008