Ending hunger - the rich world holds the keys

The Ecologist
Mar 25, 2014, 9:04 am39 pts
Food - and the land we grow it on - are much too important to be left to 'free' markets, writes Olivier De Schutter. And especially when those markets are not really free at all, but grossly distorted in favour of the rich.

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