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Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people.
High food prices
"The food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind.
"World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period.
Brief prepared for the Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Nairobi, October 29, 2003
The Director-General of IFPRI emphasized, in his address, a most important fact: Poverty and hunger are now the world s most serious public health problems.
"This is the Seventeenth EXIM BANK Commencement Day Annual Lecture, delivered at the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Gen. Jagannath Bhosale Marg, Mumbai, India 400021; Marc J.