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Stories by Ben Collins
Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies -- Finance Industry Fuels the Food Crisis
Posted on Aug 12, 2008, Source: Dollars and Sense
Prices of basic agricultural commodities have skyrocketed worldwide, threatening to further impoverish hundreds of millions of the world's poor.