A Global Food Crisis

Subsidized Subsistance
Bangladeshis buy rice from an open market sale at a subsidized price, in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an 'extraordinary emergency appeal' to donor countries for at least $500 million to meet a $15 million shortage in emergency food aid to cyclone-hit areas in Bangladesh.

• The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis