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Financial speculators and the food crisis

February 10, 2009 By IRIN

Original source: DUBAI, 8 February 2009 (IRIN) - A food security expert has said that the involvement of financial markets in basic food commodities was the biggest factor in the worldwide food price hikes over the...

UN calls for food aid from rich countries

January 29, 2009 By Morning Star

THE UN urged rich countries on Monday to stump up the aid that they pledged at a food crisis summit last year after riots had erupted in underdeveloped countries over soaring prices.

Blogging from India #4 Communist Party of India vows fight on food prices

March 27, 2008 By Teresa Albano

HYDERABAD, India — The Communist Party of India began its five-day congress here March 23 in a pouring rain unusual for the season and this area which mostly does not get enough. But the rain nourished...

Tyson workers vow to keep up fight

November 22, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

“Another day longer, another day stronger.” That’s how striking Tyson Foods worker Sherri Anderson summed up the status of what is shaping up to be an epic labor battle. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney visited the picket...

Striking Tyson Foods workers hold firm

July 1, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

JEFFERSON, Wis. – Solidarity with striking Tyson Foods workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 538, continues to grow as 500 strikers and supporters rallied here June 22. As the strike approaches its fifth...