AGRICULTURE: Behind the world’s food shortage*

Food riots in a number of developing countries have begun to refocus the attention of governments after decades of policy neglect. Patrick J. Byrne reports.Worldwide, just over a billion people survive on US$1 a day, the line of absolute poverty, while a further 1.5 billion make do on US$1.00-1.50 a day.Bob Zoellick, president of the World Bank, says that the world food crisis could wipe out all the gains the world’s poorest billion people made from the past decade of economic growth.World food …

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