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04/23/2008: "Globally, food prices have risen 40 percent since mid-2007"
Globally, food prices have risen 40 percent since mid-2007. Haiti, where most people live on less than $2 a day, is particularly affected because it imports nearly all of its food, including more than 80 percent of its rice.
Much of Haiti's once-productive farmland has been abandoned as farmers struggle to grow crops in soil decimated by erosion, deforestation, flooding and tropical storms.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/12/haiti.ap/index.html