Rice hits record high prices, some countries limit exports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7328087.stm

Corn hits $6 a bushel in the US
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080403/corn_at_6.html?.v=6


And with CCD threating the only practical pollinator of 
multiple food crops on the scale required to rise above
subsistence farming, these are strange days for agriculture
and food.

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