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India fights soaring food prices
Saturday, April 26, 2008 : Rising prices of flour and other essential foods hurt millions of families, and vendors, like this man. India has millions of "micro-venders" who make their living selling food on the street. Food prices are soaring around the world. Long lines for rations of rice or wheat flour snake through cities and towns across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas.
Food protests have rocked Haiti, Egypt, Senegal, Bangladesh and the Philippines. A United Nations report last December listed Haiti and Bangladesh among 37 countries who face food crises and need external assistance to stave off mass starvation and famine. The capitalist free market economy has helped to create this crisis.
In India, where reportedly one-half of the worlds hungry reside, soaring prices are keeping food out of reach of the poor. The left parties, led by the 600,000-member Communist Party of India (CPI) and the almost 1 million-member Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), along with parties in the United National Progressive Alliance, are demanding that Indias government take immediate action to guarantee food security for the country. Those parties held mass protests last week, in which leaders were arrested in the capital, Delhi. They vowed to step up the demonstrations if no action was taken to halt the food price inflation, dubbed agflation, by April 23. Read More
In India, where reportedly one-half of the worlds hungry reside, soaring prices are keeping food out of reach of the poor. The left parties, led by the 600,000-member Communist Party of India (CPI) and the almost 1 million-member Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), along with parties in the United National Progressive Alliance, are demanding that Indias government take immediate action to guarantee food security for the country. Those parties held mass protests last week, in which leaders were arrested in the capital, Delhi. They vowed to step up the demonstrations if no action was taken to halt the food price inflation, dubbed agflation, by April 23. Read More
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