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Truthout contributor Bill Quigley reports: "Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots worldwide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042108R.shtml

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Haiti: Mud cakes become staple diet as cost of food soars beyond a family's reach

By Rory Carroll in Port-au-Prince

With little cash and import prices rocketing half the population faces starvation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20375.htm



Stuffed and Starved

By Ed Pilkington

Ed Pilkington meets the soothsayer of agro-economics and talks about what will happen when all the food finally runs out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20378.htm



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