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Q&A: Hunger, Food Shortages Fuel Uprisings – IPS ipsnews.net
The rise in food prices and growing hunger, one of the causes of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries in the Arab world, is due to financial speculation and not a lack of arable land, says Janaina Stronzake, a leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST).