2011 Food Price Hikes Helped Trigger Arab Spring
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Channel: Voice of America · 2011 · News & Politics
In a year of protests in the Arab world, 2011's high food prices helped to make oppression, corruption and poverty under autocratic leaders even more intolerable. High and volatile food prices are in the forecast for 2012 and beyond. VOA's Steve Baragona reports.
