Workshop Spotlights Spiralling Food Price
                   
allafrica.com     May 20, 2008            

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would... [read full story]                

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