INTERNATIONAL: Food crisis represents long-term shift
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- Recent price rises
- Driving factors
- Oil's upward trend
- Poor weather conditions
- Diversion of maize and other crops to biofuel production
- Speculation
- China's new prosperity
- Social and political impact
- Poor in food-importing countries
- Government 'urban bias'
- Exacerbating problem
- Outlook
- Better targeting
- Agricultural investment
- Trade liberalisation
- Biofuel dampening?
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