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Price of Rice
By: Pulitzer Center
Posted: Oct 28 08
Witnessed: 1917 times
Regions: Vietnam
Issues: Environment, Food & health & development, Sustainable development
Tags: food labor, food prices, rice, vietnam
The price of rice has doubled in the past year in Asia giving rise to what some have coined "the Asian Food Crisis." A grassroots NGO in Vietnam is responding, by propagating sustainable agricultural techniques which build on traditional growing and distribution practices.
Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
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