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The food crisis of 2007/2008 is far from over. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that over a billion people suffer from severe malnutrition as high food prices and global recession continue to devastate the developing world. UN agencies have pledged to step up efforts to better serve the hungry. A farmer in Armenia plants winter wheat received from FAO. FAO/Johan Spanner

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