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WORLD / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- The amount of money being spent globally on importing food is set to top $1 trillion (�528bn) in 2008, an influential report estimates. Soaring food prices are the cause of the huge bill - likely to be up 26% on the 2007 total - said the UN's Food an.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Feb 10, 2007 @ 1:37am neoform

Independent -- The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims toda.. Read More