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Page last updated at 14:41 GMT, Monday, 1 June 2009 15:41 UK

SPECIAL REPORTS
Global roundup
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BBC correspondents examine the impact of fluctuating food costs on families, farmers and economies around the world.

KEY NEWS STORIES
Hunger in India states 'alarming'
Food shortages warning for Nepal
Dismay at collapse of trade talks
Food crisis looms in East Africa
EU makes production top priority
UN sets out food crisis measures
Ten-year forecast of high prices
UN plan to increase food supplies
FEATURES, VIEWS AND ANALYSIS
A worker holds a handful of rice at a factory in Jakarta, Indonesia (01/09/2008) World wakes up
Unravelling the factors that forced prices to spiral
Rice Shopping lists
How food price rises have affected eating habits
Corn (file picture) Bioenergy
Is 'green' fuel actually causing food price spikes?


VIDEO REPORTS
Nepalese child Nepalese face severe food shortages

Ethiopia's food cost problems
Protestor at a recent rally SA workers to strike over living costs

Aid workers warn of food crisis

FEATURES
Turning Russia's soil into riches
Ethiopia teeters on the brink
Case study: Impact on six families
Could GM crops help feed Africa?
Liberians drop rice for spaghetti
Unnatural roots of the food crisis
Food imports 'to top $1 trillion'
World Bank backs action plan
Hope of rice exports cuts prices
Our Food, Our Future - Radio Four
World hunger's urban edge
View from Haiti: Aid worker
Who is to blame for price rises?
Ethiopia's food cost problems
Long era of cheap food is over
UN increases food aid by $1.2bn
Bangladesh faces food crisis
Tortilla prices hurt the poor
Ethiopia's 'green drought'
Food versus fuel in corn heartland


Pie chart showing number of world hungry by food price

There are 923m undernourished people in the world
The FAO estimates 75m of the world hungry are a direct result of high food prices

Cost of food: Facts and figures
Q&A: Rising world food prices
World Service food price index

HAVE YOUR SAY
Who says there is a food crisis? Not for rich and upper classes. They can afford it at any asking price.
Wariss Shaw, Jhang

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