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IN Bangladesh, Shahita Khatan's children are growing thin. Her two young daughters and 10-year-old son collect cow dung from the roadside to sell as fuel, so they can buy food. When her husband has work, they manage to get enough to eat. But when he doesn't, they go hungry. "The time has come when we will die starving, " she says.
Khatan is just one of the billion people in the world who now want for sufficient nutrition to keep them fit and healthy. High prices and the rapidly changing climate have conspired to make 2008 the year of the global food crisis.See the full content of this document
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