PARIS (Reuters) - World farming resources should be focused on ensuring the 2008 harvest is a success in order to ease the food crisis, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday.
Increased demand from rapidly developing nations such as China, the use of crops for biofuels, global stocks at 25-year lows and market speculation are blamed for pushing prices of staples like wheat, maize and rice to record highs.
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