2010: Another Food Crisis?
The Great Recession put downward pressures on world grain prices, but a growing number of leaders, including World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick and Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, are warning that rising food prices could precipitate another food crisis this year. As a result of bad harvest and rising demand, there could be another sharp rise in rice prices in 2010.
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