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UN May Cut Food Rations for Schoolkids

Soaring food prices raise 'world's misery index,' group says

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 19, 2008 12:38 PM CDT

(Newser) – Food rations for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren may be cut because of surging crop prices that have widened the World Food Program’s funding gap to $750 million, Reuters says. The UN food aid agency also blamed the situation on high fuel prices and... Read full story »

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