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September 5, 2012

Aid Agencies Warn of Global Food Price "Castastrophe" 
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Key U.N. agencies are warning surging prices could spark a repeat of the
food crisis that swept the globe in 2007 and 2008. In a joint appeal,
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the
International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food
Program say the world faces a "catastrophe affecting tens of millions"
unless food prices can be brought under control. The appeal advises:
"Two interconnected problems must be tackled: The immediate issue of
some high food prices ... and the long-term issue of how we produce,
trade and consume food in an age of increasing population, demand and
climate change."

 

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