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Whats behind the global food crisis?: how trade policy undermined Africas food self-sufficiency [1]

The 2008 global food crisis is compromising the survival of 860 million undernourished people and threatens to push a hundred million people into extreme poverty, erasing all of the gains made in eradicating poverty in the last decade. Record high
prices have put food out of reach for the poorest people in the developing world, many of whom already spend more than half their income on food. Growing food insecurity is undermining tenuous civil stability in at least 33 countries, about one sixth of United Nations member countries.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2008
Food & Water Watch [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], Cash Crops [4], Food Policy [5], Food Prices [6], Malnutrition [7], Trade [8], Poverty [9], Africa [10], Food Security [11]
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