While 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas, agriculture receives only ... four percent of public investment and four percent of development aid. Beyond the cyclical reasons put forward to explain the present food crisis - increase in demand, climate change, competition from biofuels and financial speculation - it's this absence of resources that constitutes the principal grounds for the crisis. |
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