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Galina Litvyak had stopped by the kiosk down the road, wandered through nearby supermarkets and badgered friends for the latest rumors. Nobody knew where to find it. All over her middle-class neighborhood, the stores were filled with an ample selection...
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The Russian prime minister said that it was “necessary to note that we will only be able to consider lifting the grain export ban after next year’s harvest ... and...
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Only five years after a severe food shortage north-central Africa is again fearing the worst before the September harvest, with 10 million people threatened in this...
made popular Jun 11 2010
Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s...
made popular Sep 23 2009
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a “state of public calamity” to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the...
made popular Sep 10 2009
Food consumption in Nigeria is expected to increase by 16 per cent to N5.8 trillion, a tendency which is to continue through to 2013, according to yesterday’s...
made popular Jul 27 2009
The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size...
made popular Jul 4 2009
As everyone knows, we’re lying under a very strong Israeli closure that has badly affected our life as Palestinians as well as our work here in Gaza. For nearly 20...
made popular Nov 26 2008
*Note: Apologies to the lyricists of the Ricky Martin single, “Livin’ La Vida Loca” whose title I partially ripped off for this essay.
Awhile after clearing the...
made popular Sep 17 2008
George.W.Bush is not the most respected president in the world but this seems justified, as he is not even the most respected president in the US. But even then, he is...
made popular May 9 2008
Have those of us who live in a city or suburb been lulled into a false sense of security that the government will take care of us, no matter what happens? I used to be....
made popular Apr 28 2008
Food riots which have struck several impoverished countries could spread with shortages and high prices set to continue for some time, the head of the United Nation’s...
made popular Apr 10 2008
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