In-depth: Food Crisis: Status and Impacts
MOZAMBIQUE: Cheaper new food subsidy coming
MAPUTO, 11 May 2011 (IRIN) - Mozambique's government will again attempt to curtail subsidy expenditures for essential foods and services, but this time its approach will be more nuanced so as to avoid a repeat of the cost-of-living protests in 2010.Antonio Cruz, director of policy analysis in the planning ministry, recently told local media that subsidies on fuel, bread and rice, estimated to cost the donor-dependent government millions of dollars each month, would be phased out by the end of June 2011. full report
GLOBAL: Food aid must change to suit children-->FRONTLINE REPORTS
Increased hunger more
EGYPT: Harder times as food, gas prices spiral
SRI LANKA: Rice, wheat prices among highest in region
SOMALIA: High food prices hurting livelihoods in Afmadow
AFGHANISTAN: Winter misery as food prices rise
Where to watch prices Against a global background of steadily climbing food prices, IRIN lists a selection of websites that offer some useful insights into how, why and where food is becoming more expensive.
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Rising aid costs more
LESOTHO: A mountain of challenges
BURKINA FASO: WFP expands food voucher distribution
GLOBAL: Winds of change in US food aid policy?
GLOBAL: Donor response to food crisis inadequate, agencies say
Health affected more
FOOD: Hunger dips but not by much
GLOBAL: Food aid that gets you two for the price of one
AFGHANISTAN: Food aid not reaching most vulnerable women, children
CONGO: Thousands to benefit in food and nutrition project
Reduced growth more
GLOBAL: Economic slowdown to push 100m into poverty
INDONESIA: Poor hit hard as fuel prices rise
NEPAL: Agricultural reform “would boost food security"
VIETNAM: Rising inflation hurting poor, undermining poverty gains
Threat of unrest more
UGANDA: Government "won't budge on food prices"
EASTERN AFRICA: Consumers, traders feel the burn as prices skyrocket
CHAD: Prices hike, teachers strike
COMOROS: Concerns over possible social unrest
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Philippines: Rice shortage hits poor 
Government intervention more
SYRIA: Cash payments to thousands of vulnerable families
COTE D'IVOIRE: Political impasse sparks food price hikes
FOOD: Please manage the food better
GLOBAL: Hunger knows no borders
Opportunities? more
UGANDA: As food prices bite, HIV-positive people turn to kitchen gardens
KENYA: Bag a farm
GLOBAL: Improved farming rather than more food aid?
AFRICA: Helping small farmers feed a continent
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