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 4 June 2008
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The Food Crisis: Danger and Opportunity

04/06/2008

The recent dramatic increase in food prices worldwide has world leaders meeting in Rome to come up with short-term solutions to the crisis and to develop a more lasting strategy to deal with the causes. Ahead of the 3-day summit being hosted by the Rome based Food and Agriculture Organization, UN Radio set out to find out just how bad the crisis is. Bissera Kostova pulled together what we found out in this extended (special) report.

(duration: 8'24")