Posted on May 4, 2008 by balkan
Soaring food prices may stoke civil unrest among Asia’s poor and the region must raise food production to meet rising demand, Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said on Sunday.
A 43 per cent rise in global food prices in the year to March sparked violent protests in Cameroon and Burkina Faso as well as rallies in [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by balkan
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.
The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over [...]
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