Bad 天候 and poor 収穫s 押し進める up food costs as 専門家s say the 時代 of low prices is over

• Food 専門家 says cost of fruit and vegetables has 急に上がるd by 35% in the last five years
• Low income 世帯 have had to 削減（する） 支援する on fruit and vegetable 購入（する）s 主要な to a 'public health 災害'
  
• Lord 警告するs that 政治家，政治屋s need to 取り組む 気候 change which is 影響する／感情ing 刈るs and 天候
• '科学の 開発s needed to help 農業者s 料金d the world'
  

By Anna Edwards

Published: 09:48 BST, 10 October 2012 | Updated: 19:16 BST, 10 October 2012

A combination of terrible 天候, bad 収穫s, 憶測 and 'political drift' has 与える／捧げるd to the end of low food prices, food 専門家s 発表するd today.

Tim Lang, Professor of Food 政策 at City University, and Lord Haskins of Skidby, a 農業者 and former chairman of Northern Foods, spoke on BBC 無線で通信する 4's Today programme to 発言する／表明する their 関心s about the woeful 明言する／公表する of British food prices.

The pair both agreed that a variety of factors had 原因（となる）d the cost of 必須のs, such as fruit and vegetables, to ロケット／急騰する.

Many 刈るs were waterlogged after 強い雨 during the UK summer, and the price of 穀物 is 推定する／予想するd to ロケット／急騰する

The poor 収穫s will 影響する／感情 the price of animal 料金d, which will 押し進める up the cost of meat

Professor Lang said that bad 天候 had 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なうd 収穫s 世界的な, with the UK, America, Russia and ウクライナ共和国 不正に 影響する／感情d by the poor 条件s.

This has had a knock on 影響 on food prices, sending the cost of 穀物s, fruit and vegetables 急に上がるing, which has 攻撃する，衝突する the 底（に届く） ten per cent of income 世帯s.

Prof Lang said: 'Fruit prices are up 34 per cent in the last 5 years and low income 世帯s are cutting 支援する. This is a 災害 for public health.'

As the price of 穀物 is 急に上がるing, this has a knock-on 影響 on meat, as a large 部分 of the 刈るs are grown for animal 料金d.

He also 警告するd that he and others in his field believed that the 時代 of low food prices were over and 勧めるd 政治家，政治屋s to 焦点（を合わせる） on 取り組むing the problem.

He said: 'I don't think prices will come 負かす／撃墜する.

'The 重要な 問題／発行する is political drift. In 2007 and 2008 prices rose. There was a welcome 救済 that the 主要な Western world was taking it 本気で - but now it's on the 支援する foot.'

British grape 生産者s say they will not be 選ぶing the fruit this year because of the poor 収穫

Professor Lang told the BBC that 現在／一般に 50 per cent of cereal grown in the world was 焦点（を合わせる）d on feeding animals, and branded the 状況／情勢 'crazy'.

He was joined by Lord Haskins, who said that 科学技術の 開発s were needed to help 農業者s produce more food.

He said: '農業者s aren't 生産力のある as they could be.

'If they had the 科学（工学）技術 that I have on my farm, they could 改善する.'

He also 勧めるd 政治家，政治屋s to 焦点（を合わせる） on 取り組むing 気候 change, which he said was 決定的な to help the problem of 哀れな 収穫 s which were 存在 影響する／感情d by the world's changing 環境.

Hes 援助（する）: 'They have to recognise 気候 change. Some 大臣s appear not to, which is not a very good start.

'There's plenty of things scientists can do to 緩和する the 状況／情勢.'

農業者s in England and むちの跡s have 報告（する）／憶測d poor 収穫s 予定 to the 雨の summer.

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This was the scene over Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire this morning as the sun rose, 最高潮の場面ing the changing colours of the trees

政治家，政治屋s need to 取り組む 気候 change if they are to solve the problem of bad 収穫s, Lord Haskins said

Wheat 産する／生じるs fell 14.1 per cent this year on a five-year 普通の／平均（する） to levels last seen in the late 1980s, によれば a 調査する by the 国家の 農業者s' Union (NFU).

The 人物／姿／数字s have been 解放（する）d after the wettest summer in England and むちの跡s for 100 years, with 14.25in (362mm) of rain 落ちるing in June, July and August.

The British 小売 国際借款団／連合 (BRC) has already 警告するd of price '圧力s' に引き続いて the worst 干ばつ in 50 years in the US and a heatwave in Russia.

Guy Gagen, NFU 長，指導者 combinable 刈るs 助言者, said wheat 産する／生じるs were 負かす／撃墜する after abnormally high 降雨 across the UK since the 早期に summer.

'The resulting tight 供給（する）s of many 料金d 穀物s have driven up the prices of 農業の 商品／必需品s around the world.

'These UK 収穫 results will do little to 緩和する the 全世界の dynamics of 物価s, with the prospect of 比較して high 商品／必需品 levels through to 2013.

'Cereals prices 衝撃 直接／まっすぐに on other 部門s, 特に pig and poultry 農業者s who are already struggling with higher 料金d costs.'

Richard Dodd, of the BRC, said: 'There certainly are price 圧力s in the system which are coming from poor wheat 収穫s in this country but also in the other big wheat producing countries.

'The most 最近の 人物／姿／数字s are that wheat prices are up something like 29 per cent compared with a year ago.

'Our own 人物／姿／数字s for the shop price インフレーション for food show that it has been very, very stable - it has been 3.1 per cent for the last three months which is 現実に a two-year low. There is no food price 爆発 going on but there are 圧力s in the system that will work through.< br />

'Our ひどく 競争の激しい 小売 market is 保護するing 顧客s from the worst 影響s of these price 圧力s.'

They were not the only ones to speak out about the worrying 傾向.

According to a 調査する of its members, The 国家の 農業者s' Union 直面するs a 荒涼とした 収穫 this year.

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