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Saturday, May 21, 2011

'In the past week, wheat prices soared by 17 per cent'

from toronto star...


"The Arab world buys about one-third of all the world’s traded wheat, says the World Bank, and that’s due to rise by 40 per cent over the next decade.
“In the U.S., people eat a lot of bread,” says Rami Zurayk of American University of Beirut, an expert in land and water resources. “But imagine a country where they eat about three times that much”.............LINK

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