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	El Nino threat blows commodity prices higher #food #farming

JICWyllie

7-18-2009 4:08 AM

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1-climate change, 1-drought, 1-starvation, 2-increase, 2-risks, 3-forecast, 4-intl

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Across the southern hemisphere farmers are preparing for El Niño. Properly 
  known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation – and often shortened to ENSO – 
  this involves a warming of the oceans in the Pacific that sets off a chain 
  of events that cause droughts in Australia and floods in South America. It 
  is likely that crops will fail.
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  costs can soar and logistics for global operations become a nightmare. Add 
  in the social and political turmoil that this can bring,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/5852320/El-Nino-threat-blows-commodity-prices-higher.html"><P>
Right now, the monsoons are late in India, the world's third-largest wheat 
  producer. Many think this is an indicator that a severe ENSO event is about 
  to occur. If it is as bad as some observers think, the impact on food 
  production could be disastrous.
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