World food Crisis
Apr 28 2008, Trevor

Until a few months ago, Booncherd Leekasem would never have been caught astride a muddy tractor or squelching through buffalo dung in a rice paddy. As a headman of Khao Ngam in central Thailand he had far more respectable things to attend to, such as...

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