Price of Rice
By: Pulitzer Center
Posted: Oct 28 08
Witnessed: 419 times
Vietnam
Environment, Food & health & development, Sustainable development
food labor, food prices, rice, vietnam
The price of rice has doubled in the past year in Asia giving rise to what some have coined "the Asian Food Crisis." A grassroots NGO in Vietnam is responding, by propagating sustainable agricultural techniques which build on traditional growing and distribution practices.
Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
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