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Wide of tractor in field at sundown2. Close-up of tractor Rome, Italy - 8 May 2008 3. SOUNDBITE: (English): Abby Abbassian, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) expert on food consumption:\"From...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eParshall, North Dakota - 2 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of tractor in field at sundown\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up of tractor \u003cbr/\u003eRome, Italy - 8 May 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English): Abby Abbassian, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) expert on food consumption:\u003cbr/\u003e\"From the import point of view a lot of countries have to import more or less as what they did in the past, they had to because it's the basic food.  But that means they must have spent at least twice as much as in the previous year because prices have gone up at least by 100 percent.\"\u003cbr/\u003eParshall, North Dakota - 2 May 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e4. Tractor cresting hill at sundown\u003cbr/\u003eRome, Italy - 8 May 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English): Abby Abbassian, FAO expert on food consumption:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The fact that you have high petroleum prices, in a way it's also the reason for high production costs. Petroleum doesn't only end up in cars but it affects fertiliser prices, it affects the input costs that go into producing agriculture. So producing is becoming expensive.\"\u003cbr/\u003eParshall, North Dakota - 2 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide pan of tractors on farm  \u003cbr/\u003e7. Farmer getting out of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English): Vic Lespinasse, analyst for grainanalyst.com:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think we're going to see prices go back to the levels of several years ago, that in hind sight appear much, much cheaper. I think we're at a new plateau because of rising living standards around the world, increased demand, especially from places like China and India that's going to continue to support grain prices and commodities prices in general.\"\u003cbr/\u003eStanley, North Dakota - 3 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up of seeds being run through hopper\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of seeds going into hopper\u003cbr/\u003eChicago, Illinois - 2 June 2008\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English): Vic Lespinasse, Analyst for grainanalyst.com:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Farmers are going to respond to these record high food prices around the world the way they always do, that is they are going to increase production very substantially. The USDA and the International Grain Council based in London both for example think that this year we are going to see record wheat production, about 650 million tons, substantially higher than last year. We'll see a big increase in world production of other grains as well as farmers respond to these higher prices.\"\u003cbr/\u003eStanley, North Dakota - 3 May 2008\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of tractor driving through farm\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up of tractor \u003cbr/\u003eUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to urge world leaders Tuesday to immediately suspend or eliminate many price controls\u003cbr/\u003eand other agricultural trade restrictions in an urgent appeal to bring down soaring food prices.\u003cbr/\u003eBan intends to make the appeal at an emergency meeting of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome on Tuesday, where world leaders will gather to look into reasons and remedies for dealing with the world food crisis. \u003cbr/\u003eBan will press nations to ease a wide variety of farming taxes, export bans and import tariffs to help millions of the world's poor cope with the highest food prices in 30 years, UN officials said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"A lot of countries have to import more or less as what they did in the past, they had to because it's the basic food.  But that means they must have spent at least twice as much as in the previous year because prices have gone up at least by 100 percent,\" FAO expert Abby Abbassian told AP Television.\u003cbr/\u003eBan also intends to request that the United States and other nations phase out subsidies for food-based biofuels, including ethanol, that have been used to encourage farmers to grow crops for energy use rather than human consumption.\u003cbr/\u003eFood prices have been skyrocketing worldwide due to high oil prices, changing diets, urbanisation, expanding populations, flawed trade policies, extreme weather, growth in bio-fuels production and speculation. \u003cbr/\u003eThey have sparked riots and protests from Africa to Asia, some resulting deaths, and have raised fears that millions more will suffer from malnutrition.\u003cbr/\u003eVic Lespinasse an analyst for grainanalyst.com and a trader on the CME group commodities exchange in Chicago said,\"I think we're at a new plateau because of rising living standards around the world, increased demand, especially from places like China and India that's going to continue to support grain prices and commodities prices in general.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Farmers are going to respond to these record high food prices around the world the way they always do, that is they are going to increase production very substantially,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eLespinasse believes commodities prices will drop for wheat and soy beans as a bumper crop is expected this season. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and the International Grain Council based in London both for example think that this year we are going to see record wheat production, about 650 (m) million tons, substantially higher than last year.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLespinasse does think although there will be greater production for small grains, world wide food prices will never go back to where they were just a few years ago.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think we're going to see prices go back to levels they were several years ago, that in hind sight appear much much cheaper. 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