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To: TimF who wrote (27102)9/4/2006 5:16:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 541346
 
Food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. New figures show that this year's harvest will fail to produce enough to feed everyone on Earth, for the sixth time in the past seven years. Humanity has so far managed by eating its way through stockpiles built up in better times - but these have now fallen below the danger level.
news.independent.co.uk