Farmers in Senegal and elsewhere in West Africa, after investing and borrowing heavily to expand their production, run the risk of being wiped out as global food prices plummet.

By Pete Harrison (Reuters)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Biofuels are responsible for 30 percent of the increase in global food prices, pushing 30 million people worldwide into poverty, the aid agency Oxfam said in a report Wednesday.

By Andrew Martin (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2008
Prices for farm crops should gradually come down, but they will remain substantially higher than average over the next decade, according to a report by the United Nations and the OECD

By Darren Ennis (Reuters)
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN’s World Food Program, said the global economy had created “a perfect storm for the world’s hungry, caused by high oil and food prices and low food stocks.”
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