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A Haitian student walks past bags of
groceries for sale with a sign that
reads "Here not credit" in the slum
neighbourhood of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-
Prince April 28, 2008. REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz (HAITI)
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A woman displays rice for sale at Ba
Chieu market in Vietnam's southern Ho
Chi Minh city April 27, 2008. Asia's
fear of impending rice shortages looks
to have become something of a self-
fulfilling prophecy and exposed the over-
reliance of many of the region's
economies on food subsidies and other
market-imbalancing steps. REUTERS/
Kham
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A man wears a sign that reads "We are
hungry" during a demonstration against
rising food prices in Dakar April 26,
2008. REUTERS/Normand Blouin
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A girl rests while people line up to
purchase government-subsidised rice from
a mobile rice store operated from the
back of a truck in Quezon City, Metro
Manila April 15, 2008. Local prices have
soared by up to 30 percent since the end
of 2007. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
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A worker prepares rice for resale by the
Philippine government to low income
groups at subsidised prices inside a
National Food Authority warehouse in
Quezon City, Metro Manila, April 22,
2008. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
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A vendor carries a sack of sugar at a
grocery store in Almaty April 29, 2008.
A jump in prices for foodstuffs has hit
many poor nations this year and sparked
riots in parts of Africa and Asia, but
it has also reached unlikely places like
Kazakhstan - an oil-rich nation which
itself is the world's fifth largest
wheat exporter. REUTERS/Shamil
Zhumatov
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People wait in line to purchase
government-subsidised rice from a mobile
vendor next to a market in Quezon City,
Metro Manila April 18, 2008. REUTERS/
Darren
Whiteside
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A protester bangs an empty pot during a
rally along a busy street in Manila
April 16, 2008. The protester blamed the
government for the recent rise in food
prices. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
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A farmer shakes unhusked rice during a
harvest in Sidoarjo in Indonesia's East
Java province April 28, 2008. Indonesia
plans to spend 6 trillion rupiah ($651.1
million) this year to provide farmers
with rice seeds, including high-yielding
hybrid varieties to boost output.
REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas
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Children eat rice inside a market in
Quezon City, Metro Manila April 23, 2008.
Some consumers in Asia are eating less
rice or scrimping on already meagre
budgets to ensure they can still feed
their families a daily helping of the
cereal. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
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A vendor collects black grains of rice
at a rice sale-agent at the Voi market,
20 km (12.5 miles) south of Hanoi April
16, 2008. REUTERS/Kham
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Residents line up for cheap cooking oil
sold by the government to counter the
recent soaring prices in the local
markets in Jakarta April 30, 2008.
REUTERS/Crack
Palinggi
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People queue for cheap cooking oil
distributed by the local government in
the Indonesia's ancient city of
Yogyakarta April 24, 2008. REUTERS/
Stringer
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Women prepare rice-based lunch dishes in
the kitchen of a canteen in Dakar April
23, 2008. Rice, the daily staple shared
in family and communal food bowls across
West Africa, risks becoming a luxury as
rocketing price rises squeeze the
pockets and stomachs of the region's
people. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
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