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UN Head: Drop Policies That Up Food Prices

Ban urges global response to avert mass starvation

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 2, 2008 8:44 AM CDT

(Newser) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will plead with world leaders at a food summit in Rome tomorrow to suspend trade restrictions, agricultural taxes, and other price controls that have helped create the highest food prices in 30 years, reports the Washington Post. Ban will also...   Read full story »

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