[Ost-news] The coming food catastrophe

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Georgia Straight April 3, 2008

The coming food catastrophe 

By Gwynne Dyer

This is the new face of hunger, said Josette Sheeran, executive  
director of the UNs World Food Programme, launching an appeal for an  
extra $500 million so it could continue supplying food aid to 73 million  
hungry people this year. People are simply being priced out of food  
marketsWe have never before had a situation where aggressive rises in  
food prices keep pricing our operations out of our reach.

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