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Food Crisis (2008)
The Food CrisisSpeculation, Malthusian constraints, weather and bio-fuels. What should we do? For a full library of documents and maps on food emergencies and programmes see Relief Web's Global Food Crisis portal In a hard corner of southern Ethiopia, the multiple causes of the global food crisis converge
2008's economic turmoil must not be an excuse to ignore world poverty. That requires a new story
Drought, thirst, and land-hunger...a parched earth equals global environmental danger
A young journalist's compelling diary reveals that to be poor in Russia is to survive rather than live
The Rome conference failed to address the roots of hunger in unfair global food policies
The emergency food conference opens the way to making the global economy work for aid policy
With 2,000 rubles, you can eat for a month, says the state. A young journalist tries...
Recently, a young Polit.ru journalist from Moscow undertook to live for a month off the sum officially calculated as sufficient to live on. In this second report, she admits she is ill-equipped, and suffering cravings
A young Polit.ru journalist recently undertook to live for a month off the sum officially calculated as sufficient to live on. In this third report, Liza survives the ordeal, with a little help from her readers
A question to Martin Wolf and Paul Collier on the world's food crisis: can we all be both vegetarian and libertarian?
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
The violent protests in Haiti against rising food prices expose its deeper political predicament
A worldwide increase in the price of basic foods is provoking anger and despair in many of the world's poor countries
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