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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9617

7 March 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/un/food aid
$500 million deficit may cause WFP to reduce aid

Brussels, 06/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 6 March, Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) sounded a real warning in Brussels, where she had come to inform the European Parliament development committee of the impact of the surge in food and oil prices on the world's poorest people, who faced the risk of famine.

The cost of wheat doubled between May and September 2007. This is the largest structural change in the food market since the Second World War. We are...

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