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    EuroNews - Satellites used to combat rocketing food prices

    30 May 2008

    With the cost of staple foods heading into orbit, millions of people in the world's poorest countries are facing the prospect of hunger. And the global food crisis is being felt especially hard where drought, flood or pestilence threatens. But now, satellites are being used in the battle against rocketing prices.

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