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Food Price "Catastrophe" Feared On Eve Of Summit

Reutes: Soaring food prices could trigger a global catastrophe and the world's poor need action, not words, from this week's UN food security summit, human rights activists and the World Bank said on Monday. The warning came as world leaders arrived in Rome for a global conference to tackle a food crisis that is pushing 100 million people into hunger, provoking food protests and could aggravate violence in war zones. "The current food crisis amounts to a gross violation of human ... Read »
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