Food inflation: Can we combat global hunger?

# Most of the global attention has been riveted on falling dollar and new records set by gold and oil, but little notice has been taken of the looming food disaster that could be the worst famine the world has faced in a century.

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# The head of the UN World Food Programme has warned that the rise in basic food costs could continue until 2010.

# The US humanitarian relief agency will significantly scale back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries because of soaring global food prices.

# Global food reserves are at their lowest level in 30 years - with enough to cover the need for emergency deliveries for 53 days, compared with 169 days in 2007.