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Global Hunger Is Back With a Vengeance
The surge in prices of major agricultural commodities is hitting the world’s poor especially hard.
The burden is not shared equally.
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Even a short spasm of food inflation can be damaging for the world’s poorest, who are rarely more than a few meals away from hunger. So the current spike in food prices, examined in detail by several of my colleagues, should be setting off klaxons everywhere.