Other than Al Jazeera in English, the best news source on the food crisis has been Bloomberg. You can be fairly sure that when you see Alison Fitzgerald and Jason Gale in the byline, you're getting quality reporting. Here's the latest article from a series that Bloomberg are doing on hunger and famine. Original here.

World Bank’s ‘Wrong Advice’ Left Silos Empty in Poor Countries
2008-12-10 00:01:00.2 GMT
By Alison Fitzgerald and Helen Murphy

Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Inside and out, the rusted towers of El Salvador’s biggest grain silo show how the World Bank helped push developing countries into the global food crisis. ... read more »

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Posted on 11 December, 2008 - 02:08

EL SALVADOR: Increase in Poverty Driven by Soaring Food Prices
By Raúl Gutiérrez

SAN SALVADOR, Oct 6 (IPS) - In the village of Talchiga in northeastern El Salvador, 20 families live in wooden shacks with earth floors, have no piped water, electricity or sewer services, and suffer from high levels of malnutrition.

The village is in the remote mountainous department (province) of Morazán, on the border with Honduras and 200 km from San Salvador, one of the areas that was most affected by the 1980-1992 civil war.

But while the armed conflict is long over, conditions have not improved in this village located 900 metres above sea level, where the dire poverty contrasts with the fresh mountain air and the natural beauty of the small rivers and streams that run over the rough terrain around the community. ... read more »

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Posted on 8 October, 2008 - 18:50