“The Hidden Battle for the World Food System”

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ellenr
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“The Hidden Battle for the World Food System”

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This is the subtitle of a book, Stuffed and Starved, by Raj Patel. I haven't read the book but the author has been on the airwaves in a lot of different places and he sounds quite interesting.
You can read an interview with him by Amy Goodman at:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/8/st ... food_riots
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Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent—in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there has been a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months.
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ellen
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