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Food: The New Gold

For the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day, the world's worst food crisis in a generation is a matter of survival.

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Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice
Article | NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania Even before he took a butcher knife to the she-goat's throat, Likbir Ould Mohamed Mahmoud knew it would only make things worse.
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The New Economics of Hunger
Article | The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.
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