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Food Price Crisis

Food Price Crisis

(Global Pulse: May 2, 2008) Global food prices soar and the world's poorest people go even hungrier. Food riots fuel political crises in some nations. Rich nations pledge more aid. Will it be enough to stop what some world leaders call "a silent tsunami of hunger"?

SOURCES: ABC News & NBC News, U.S.; BBC, U.K.; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; CCTV, China; 5 Day News, U.S.

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Food Price Crisis

(Global Pulse: May 2, 2008) Global food prices soar and the world's poorest people go even hungrier. Food riots fuel political crises in some nations. Rich nations pledge more aid. Will it be enough to stop what some world leaders call "a silent tsunami of hunger"?

SOURCES: ABC News & NBC News, U.S.; BBC, U.K.; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; CCTV, China; 5 Day News, U.S.

Click here to find out more on this issue and what you can do.

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