Food Crisis in Latin America
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With so much focus on the banking crisis, it’s easy to forget that the recent global recession also includes soaring food and energy prices that triggered riots across the globe. Laura Carlsen is Director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy. She’s author of the article Behind Latin America’s Food Crisis.
Carlsen believes that what’s happened in