Hidden battle for the world's food system

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Hidden battle for the world's food system

 

Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel

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Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to

the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the

continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast,

Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by

50

percent, in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States

therehas been a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other

cereals over the past six months. We speak with Raj Patel, author of Stuffed

and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

 

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