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Even before the dramatic price spike in early 2008, rice prices on the world market increased every year from 2001 to 2007. Never before in the post-World...

World market rice prices tripled between April 2007 and April 2008, with most of the increase coming early in 2008. While the world market price is an...

Of the world’s 1.1 billion poor people, almost 700 million people with income of less than a dollar a day reside in rice-growing countries of Asia. Rice...

(Photo: Ariel Javellana) At least 840 million people worldwide do not have enough food to meet their daily energy needs. In addition, more than three...