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Over 100 million people may get to starve to death because of the food crisis emerging in the world, the World Bank warns. Such a 'tsunami' may effect from the migration of considerable masses of people in search for food.

And the crisis is already causing effects so far unimaginable. Some shops sell just a limited amount of rice in the US and Israel. The global warming, the demographic boom in the poor countries and the increasing consume are blamed for the spectacular price raise.

As for Romania, the drought in 2007 made production half of what it used to be and it raised prices in chain. Supermarkets are accused of taking advantage of it to see to their profit. (...) (D.S.)

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