Analysis:
Rising food prices bring host of political risks
    06 January, 2011 (Peter Apps)
    LONDON (Reuters) - Record food
    prices will hit the world's poorest
    hardest, raising the risk of riots, export
    bans, foreign-owned farmland
    expropriation and further price..More
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Ethiopian Food Prices Up Nearly 50%
09 August, 2011 (VOA) - Ethiopians awoke Tuesday to news that
food prices had increased nearly 50 percent over the past year.
They didn’t need to be told. Even middle-class Ethiopians...More
How global investors make money out of hunger
02 September, 2011 (Horand Knaup, Michaela Schiessl)
Food prices to be even more volatile, U.N. says
    11 October, 2011 (Reuters) -"It said short-
    term price swings had long-term impacts on
    development, depriving young children in
    vulnerable areas of key nutrients, which
permanently cut their future earning capacity and increased...More
Bleak Christmas/Ganna for Ethiopians
    07 January, 2012 (The Africa Report) -
    Prices of chicken, sheep and goats have more
    than doubled in Ethiopia ahead of Christmas
    celebrations on Sunday.
Ethiopians, especially those from the Orthodox Church, use the
Julian calendar, which means Christmas is celebrated on January 7
and not December 25....More
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