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The Food Crisis Isn't Over, Nature
 









Excerpts: Although the credit crunch has lowered the price of food, a global
recession now raises the hunger pains of the most vulnerable. The stage is set
for the next international food crisis, (...). Between 2005 and summer 2008, the
international prices of wheat and maize (corn) tripled, and that of rice grew
fivefold. Poor people typically spend 50-70% of their income on food, and their
wages did not adjust quickly enough to compensate for their shrinking purchasing
power. From 2003-05 to 2007, the number of undernourished people increased from
some 848 million to 923 million, largely because of the food-price crisis1.
Source: The Food Crisis Isn't Over[
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456701a.html ], Joachim von
Braun, DOI: 10.1038/456701a, Nature 456, 701, 08/12/11

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