Created: Mar 11, 2008
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World warned on food price spiral

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Type: News or Magazine Article
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/bus...
Publisher: BBC World
Date published: Tue, Mar 11, 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Scale of activity: Global

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The price of wheat has doubled in the past year - and it is not the only foodstuff trading at a high price on the international commodity market.

Things have got so bad that aid agencies are having to rethink their programmes.

In the UK, pig farmers are protesting at Downing Street over the price of feed.

BBC science correspondent Tom Feilden looks at the reasons why the era of cheap food may be coming to an end.


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