Year of living dangerously: the global food crisis threatens to spread in the wake of economic chaos. Richard Swift sees both peril and promise in the future.

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Year of living dangerously: the global food crisis threatens to spread in the wake of economic chaos. Richard Swift sees both peril and promise in the future.

2008 - what a year! First the price of petroleum doubled, then a global food crisis, now a complete financial meltdown. People can be forgiven for wondering 'what next?' The runaway cost of basic foodstuffs hit hard earlier in the year. The Western media played it as an unfortunate, but far away, tragedy. Most people in the industrial world barely noticed as the prices on the supermarket shelves edged up. But for those in the Global South living on $2 or less a day--about one in three of us--it wa...

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