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Population: An Unacknowledged Presence At World Food Crisis Talks

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Continuing world population growth was a huge but unacknowledged elephant in the conference hall at the June 2008 UN-Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Summit in Rome on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy. Remarkably, only a handful of the more than 200 heads of government, foreign ministers, ambassadors and ministers of agriculture, development and trade even mentioned population growth in their presentations on the world’s exploding demand for food and rapidly rising prices.

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