U.N. expert: Food crisis ‘a silent tsunami’
April 22, 2008 – 10:32 pmThose battling global warming by promoting biofuels may unintentionally be adding to skyrocketing world food prices, creating what one expert calls “a silent tsunami” in developing nations.
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