The Politics of Hunger

By GRIT TV

January 27, 2009

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Oil prices have come down steadily but the global food crisis continues to worsen. What's driving the food crisis at home and abroad?

Joel Berg, the author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America, Arun Gupta, Editor of The Indypendent, and Max Fraad Wolff, an economist and freelance writer discuss possible solutions.

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