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World Bank warns about rising food prices

charlotte.com
May 20, 2008
        

A top World Bank official warned Tuesday that global poverty levels could surge over the next three years due to rising food costs and predicted no letdown in the price of rice.Already, rising food and fuel prices over the past two years have pushed some 100 million people back into poverty,...

                   

World Bank warns rising food costs could raise global poverty over next 3 years

startribune.com
May 20, 2008
        

By EILEEN NG , Associated Press SINGAPORE - A top World Bank official warned Tuesday that global poverty levels could surge over the next three years due to rising food costs and predicted no letdown in the price of rice. Already, rising food and fuel prices over the past two years have pushed...

                   

World Bank warns about rising food prices (AP)

yahoo.com
May 20, 2008
        

By EILEEN NG, Associated Press Writer Tue May 20, 5:22 AM ET SINGAPORE - A top World Bank official warned Tuesday that global poverty levels could surge over the next three years due to rising food costs and predicted no letdown in the price of rice. Already, rising food and fuel prices over the...

                   

World Bank warns about rising food prices

newsvine.com
May 20, 2008
        

A top World Bank official warned Tuesday that global poverty levels could surge over the next three years due to rising food costs and predicted no letdown in the price of rice. Already, rising food and fuel prices over the past two years have pushed some 100 million people back into poverty,...

                   

World Bank warns about rising food prices

newsday.com
May 20, 2008
        

By EILEEN NG | Associated Press Writer SINGAPORE - A top World Bank official warned Tuesday that global poverty levels could surge over the next three years due to rising food costs and predicted no letdown in the price of rice. Already, rising food and fuel prices over the past two years have...

                   

World Bank warns about rising food prices

nwsource.com
May 20, 2008
        

By EILEEN NG ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SINGAPORE -- A top World Bank official warned Tuesday that global poverty levels could surge over the next three years due to rising food costs and predicted no letdown in the price of rice. Already, rising food and fuel prices over the past two years have...

World Bank says food prices to stay high for years

indiatimes.com
May 20, 2008
        

SINGAPORE: The World Bank warned on Tuesday that is expects the cost of staple foods such as rice to stay high for a number of years. World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub told reporters that the recent spike in food prices was not a short-term, temporary phenomenon that would go away...

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Food prices to stay high - World Bank

rte.ie
May 20, 2008
        

The World Bank has warned that it expects the cost of staple foods such as rice to stay high for years. But it also said the world's food markets were intact and needed no intervention. 'This is not a few weeks, few months thing. It could be two or three years,' World Bank managing director Juan...

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World food price crisis 'here to stay'

legitgov.org
May 19, 2008
        

High food prices are here to stay and the world needs a "green revolution" to feed its rising population, the senior humanitarian official at the United Nations has told The Telegraph. 19 May 2008 Sir John Holmes, Britain's former ambassador to Paris who now serves as the UN's under-secretary for...

Higher food prices here to stay as meat demand soars -- UN

independent.ie
May 19, 2008
        

The emergence of hundreds of millions of middle-class consumers in who now serves as the UN's under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, said that structural changes in the global economy explained the sudden rise in food prices. "It is possible that in the next two or three years prices will come...