Food prices still relevant on World Food Day
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Oct 17 08
Witnessed: 413 times
Food & health & development, Poverty, Water
FAO, food shortage, hunger, kenya, starvation, World Food Day
Developing countries are still hit hard by food costs.
As World Food Day is marked, human rights groups claim the current agricultural system needs to be reconsidered if the hungry are to be fed.
Laura Kyle reports. (October 16, 2008)
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