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  • April 2008

    • Rice Is the New Oil

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Apr 27, 08 3:31 PM CDT

      Rice Is the New Oil

      Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger." Newsweek investigates the causes, which are both complicated and simple. More »

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      China  • United Nations  • India  • food  • food prices  • poverty  • hunger  • speculation  • rice prices  • hunger riots

    • Scientists Work on New 'Green Revolution'

      newser  |  LiveScience  |  Apr 25, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Scientists Work on New 'Green Revolution'

      Food scientists are plotting a new "green revolution" to solve a growing food crisis, LiveScience reports. Facing what a World Food Program official called a “silent tsunami” of world hunger, researchers are working on a sequel to the first "green revolution" of the mid-20th century, whose innovations included the fertilizers, pesticides and better irrigation that helped increase crop yields. More »

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      food prices  • biofuel  • food riots  • World hunger  • famine  • hunger alleviation  • Food and Agriculture Organization  • hunger riots

    • G-7 Leaders Offer No Fix for Credit Crisis

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 14, 08 7:31 AM CDT

      G-7 Leaders Offer No Fix for Credit Crisis

      Group of Seven finance ministers ended 3 days of meetings in Washington yesterday by endorsing a plan to create greater transparency and oversight in financial markets to avert future crises, but no emergency measures to stem the current one. Despite a downbeat report on the likelihood of worldwide recession, and even hunger riots as the cost of food continues to soar, responses to the credit crisis remain national responsibilities, writes the Wall Street Journal . More »

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      recession  • credit crisis  • World Bank  • hunger  • IMF  • Dominique Strauss Kahn  • hunger riots  • Group of Seven

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