u.n. food and agriculture organization says that is due to the recent upheavals there. eat prices were already high following the extreme weather and drought in many parts of th- world recently. the food price index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices up a basket of food commodities. it has risen constantly since june 2010. the fao expects harvests to improve for the current year but fears prices will continue to rise. agricultural producers rely on oil-based fertilizers and fuel some of the north ever been in the middle east unrest as send oil prices spiraling upwards. >> german economics minister called a crisis meeting to discuss the failure of the launch of the new super e10 fuel mixture. it has been put on hold for now. it was launched only two months ago. car owners in germany have been reluctant to buy it, and it contains 10% ethanol. they're playing it safe by sticking to distended super and super plus, causing supply bottlenecks. the new fuel will be reducing carbon dioxide emissions. back toto you. >> thank you. to spread your wings and f

u.n. food and agriculture organization says that is due to the recent upheavals there. eat prices were already high following the extreme weather and drought in many parts of the world recently. the food price index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices up a basket of food commodities. it has risen constantly since june 2010. the fao expects harvests to improve for the current year but fears prices will continue to rise. agricultural producers rely on oil-based fertilizers and fuel some of the north ever been in the middle east unrest as send oil prices spiraling upwards. >> german economics minister called a crisis meeting to discuss the failure of the launch of the new super e10 fuel mixture. it has been put on hold for now. it was launched only two months ago. car owners in germany have been reluctant to buy it, and it contains 10% ethanol. they're playing it safe by sticking to distended super and super plus, causing supply bottlenecks. the new fuel will be reducing carbon dioxide emissions. back to you. >> thank you. to spread your wings and fly

of people and that is food prices i know that some interesting information i think just out today is that a new record was set at least for as long as the u.n. food and agriculture organization has been keeping tabs on this and that is the food price index went to two hundred thirty six points last month and that was an increase of troops point two percent from january a record let's bring the price of food and kind of relate it to this income inequality discussion so one the one thing to consider when you talk about rising food prices and also rising commodity prices in general not just through the energy costs gasoline acts that are is that you know lower income households spend a large proportion of their income on food on these statements recipes and that leaves them less money to spend on discretionary items which is one thing that actually helps drive the economy and also reduces the amount of product that they can actually buy in fact in january in the u.s. we found was that even though we received a payroll tax cut you know all workers received a two percent benefit to their paychecks that money was actually eaten up by inflation by rising food prices are rising gas