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Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes about the food crisis in an Op-Ed in the New York Times today.
"There is also a high-tech version of the tale of two peoples. Agricultural crops like corn and soybeans can be used for making ethanol for motor fuel. So the stomachs of the hungry must also compete with fuel tanks."
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consumption pattern must change.
These are honestness and belief of the third world that they are secrificing their nutrition and health for the easy movement of advance developed countries so they are working for the betterment of poor.
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