Suicide watch for a farmer in India’s Maharashtra State: the escalating food prices of 2008 have done little to ease the distress of the world’s small farmers. Photo by GMB Akash / Panos

Year of living dangerously

Richard Swift on the hard edge of hunger in a year of perpetual crisis. Action – a new diet for the world food system.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
Riot act: a Haitian street vendor surveys the damage after food riots in Port-au-Prince, April 2008.Photo: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Starved by the system

The companies making a killing from the food crisis

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NI 413 - Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil - July, 2008

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