Sunday, April 27, 2008

The New Economics of Hunger

The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.

For the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day, the world's worst food crisis in a generation is a matter of survival. See a slideshow of food crises around the world.