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Eyewitness: Guatemala Food Crisis
World  (tags: Guatemala, government, children, families, malnutrition, food shortages, hunger, HumanRights )

Dee
- 99 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Guatemala has been hit by severe food shortages, with some 54,000 families living in the east of the country facing a critical situation.
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AFGHANISTAN: Long Drought Raises Spectre of Famine
World  (tags: food crisis, AFGHANISTAN, food shortages, starvation, CWS, UNAMA, humanitarian situation, Afghans, UnitedNations, society, humanrights, conflict, government, HumanRights )

Madalena
- 273 days ago - ipsnews.net
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24, 2009 (IPS) - The battle to contain the growing political and military turmoil in Afghanistan may be temporarily overshadowed by an impending threat to millions of people in that strife-torn country: food shortages and starvation.
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World Leaders: Stop the Food Crisis
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', government, Refugees&Relief, Food shortages )

Bea
- 602 days ago - avaaz.org
We've plunged into a world food crisis-- soaring crop prices sowing inflation and squeezing households round the world, 100 million more facing starvation and food riots flaring from Egypt to Bangladesh
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Changing Economic Conditions Destabilize World Food Supply
World  (tags: food, Food production, food shortages, food prices )


- 604 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
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. In Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City, traders
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FOOD RATIONING OR PRICE JACKING?????
World  (tags: china, africa, asia, ethics, india, suffering, humans, food shortages, food hoarding, price jacking )

Debra
- 606 days ago - dallasblog.com
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is restricting the purchase of rice at Sam's Club - the latest sign of a global shortage of the staple food. The new restriction - customers can buy a maximum of four bags per visit.
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Haitian Prime Minister Ousted Over High Food Prices
World  (tags: Haiti, prime minister, Jacques Edouard Alexis, rice, hunger, food shortages, world hunger, crisis )

Kristmas
- 619 days ago - cnn.com
Parliament votes to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis. Action comes after days of rioting over high food prices. Haitian president announces deal to reduce cost of rice. Calm returning, more political changes needed.
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Pets 'Slaughtered For Food In Zimbabwe'
World  (tags: Zimbabwe, food shortages, companion animals slaughtered, desperate situation )

Betty
- 831 days ago - smh.com.au
Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them. The NSPCA said it couldn't feed surrendered animals or find new homes --
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