No need to rehash how rising food prices are at least a strong background component of the ongoing uprisings in the Middle East, and have figured heavily in plenty of similar events historically, but the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has just released some new data showing that global food prices hit a new record high in January and that similarly high prices and upward pressure on them is likely to “persist for months to come.” From
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Global Food Prices Hit Record Highs in January & Will Stay That Way For Months: UN FAO