How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor [Video]

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How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor [Video]

Grist Magazine, March 15, 2010
Straight to the Source

To understand the complexities of the international food market -- and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve -- you could get a Ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke.

Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably waaaay over a kid's head. Just watch -- it's excellent, and very well illustrated:

How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo.

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