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MSNBC
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The World Bank estimates that higher food prices are pushing 30 million Africans into poverty. Zoellick said African leaders wanted action, not words.
“It would be unfortunate if (bio-energy) becomes the sole point of debate, because then we would no..
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BBC News
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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..
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BBC News
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Food prices have risen 21% in China so far this year, fuelling concerns about inflation in the economy and the affordability of basic staple goods.
The surge was confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics, which also revealed that economic growth e..
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BBC News
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Rice prices are set to keep rising as demand for the staple is outstripping production, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has said.
The Philippines-based body said in its Rice Today publication that more research was needed in how to inc..
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BBC News
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Fuel protests triggered by rising oil prices have spread to more countries across Europe, with thousands of fishermen on strike.
In Spain, Europe's largest fish producer, the action is expected to bring the industry to a halt, as thousands demonstrate..
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BBC News
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Thailand wants to form an Opec-style rice cartel to give it more control over international rice prices.
The world's biggest rice exporter plans to talk to Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam about co-operating on prices.
Rice prices have tripled so f..
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BBC News
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Rice prices have scaled fresh heights in Asian trade amid concern that export bans by key producers will hit demand.
Rough rice for July delivery touched $24.745 per 100lb for the first time, before falling slightly.
Curbs are in place in India and..
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BBC News
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The head of the UN World Food Programme has said urgent action is required to stimulate food production and help the poor cope with soaring food prices.
Josette Sheeran told the BBC that the WFP was now providing food aid to an additional 100 million p..
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CNN
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More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike, demanding higher pay to keep pace with skyrocketing prices, officials said Tuesday. The workers at Ching Luh plant, in southern Long An provi..
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MSNBC
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Philippine activists warn about possible riots. Aid agencies across Asia worry how they will feed the hungry. Governments dig deeper every day to fund subsidies.
A sharp rise in the price of rice is hitting consumer pocketbooks and raising fears of pub..
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BBC News
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Nigeria's trade unions have called off their general strike over a recent rise in petrol prices, after talks with government officials.
Union leaders said they had accepted the government's proposal to freeze petrol prices for at least a year.
The g..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Russia is likely to more than double the price of natural gas to Georgia in a fresh sign of disintegrating relations with the former Soviet state. The planned hike echoed the cutting of supplies to Ukraine during the "gas war" in January and in a calcul..
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