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American farm lobby fights changes that would ease food crisis view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06...)
Unfortunately, the American farm lobby, which supports food aid as long as it gets the profit, is fighting any change to the ...
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2 killed as troops fire into Somali riot over food prices - washingtonpost.com view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...)
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis on Monday, killing two people in the latest erup...
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IMF to Offer Buyouts to About 500 Employees to trim staff view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...)
Under pressure to cut costs, the International Monetary Fund is embracing one of the austerity measures it has long prescribe...
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EU eyes stricter standards for biofuel imports view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b78dd03...)
The European Union is considering stringent social and environmental criteria for imports that the US and some other big biof...
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Eradication of Malaria still a long way off view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...)
A generation after the first attempt failed, people are once more talking seriously about eradicating malaria.
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Tanzanians to be paid to avoid unsafe sex view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c391a1c...)
Thousands of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at ...
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10 Million Could Die In Asian Rice Crisis view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.cgdev.org/content/opin...)
10 million people or more could die prematurely if currently high global prices are passed along to poor people in Asia, warn...
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World Faces 'Silent Tsunami' of Rising Food Prices view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...)
More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a "silent tsunami" of sharply rising food prices, which ...
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Sarkozy doubles food aid to poor nations view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b06ab01...)
The French president pledged more money and a new global partnership to bring down food prices – the latest ambitious plan to...
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FT.com / World - Flow of migrants’ funds to Latin America slows view story
about 1 year ago (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d76f27a...)
Money sent home by Latin American migrant workers in the US grew last year at their slowest rate in a decade, a result of the...
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