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Article of the week What can be done about rising food prices? Jasson Ubarch According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the global price of essential agricultural staples, wheat, corn and other cereals has risen by more than 50 per cent over the last six months. The strain of rising food prices has caused riots and protests in a number of countries ... Read full article...		Introduction The Free Market Foundation (Southern Africa) is an independent non-profit policy organisation founded in 1975 to promote and foster an open society, the rule of law, personal liberty, and economic and press freedom as fundamental components of its advocacy of human rights and democracy based on classical liberal principles. It is financed by membership subscriptions, donations, sponsorships, and income from its consultancy company.          Current Policy Bulletins China’s drug dilemma Dangerous delusions about the benefits of big government Freer trade could fill the world’s rice bowl Still healthy after all these years Tax Freedom Day 2008 – 12 May this year
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