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The world's growing food price crisis | April

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on April 14 that the crisis could not only push millions of people deeper into poverty but also have wider political and security implications.
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Filipino children living in a slum area Jordan Buhawi, 5, (L) and his sister Sunshine, 4, (R) eat a meal of rice mixed with noodles and dried fish in Manila. Pressure mounted Monday on global farming powers to ramp up production in the face of warnings that soaring food prices could drive 100 million people deeper into abject poverty.[Xinhua] 

 
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