Food crisis the facts: the increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the foreseeable future. Industrial agriculture's chickens have come home to roost. But the price is being paid not by agribusiness and food retailers but by small farmers who income remains low, and by the millions being pushed into malnutrition.

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Food crisis the facts: the increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the foreseeable future. Industrial agriculture's chickens have come home to roost. But the price is being paid not by agribusiness and food retailers but by small farmers who income remains low, and by the millions being pushed into malnutrition.

Food price take-off Rise in food prices 2005-2008(3)

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Who wins?

Big companies:

* The share price of two of the world's biggest agribusinesses-Monsanto and Syngenta AG-almost doubled between June 2007 and Ju...

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