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World food crisis, still
The world food crisis, which was hot in 2008 and then subsided temporarily, is getting worse again. It was one of the factors in Tunisia’s revolution, along with recent revolts in Algeria. The piece below, published in the June-July 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Africa, Ban Ki-moon, biofuels, capitalism, climate change, commodities futures, Economic, ecosocialism, environment, Famine, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, food crisis, food sovereignty, global warming, Haiti, International Monetary Fund, Karl Marx, Marxism, Mexico, peasants, revolution, Socialism, speculation, Terra Preta, Third World, United Nations, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, United States, Via Campesina, world food crisis
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