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Haitians load bags of food donated by the United States onto a truck for distribution to earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince after the January earthquake. Photo: Jenny Vaughan/Mercy Corps

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Earthquake Shocks Haitian Rice Market

In Haiti, rice is king. It’s consumed at every meal and forms an important source of income for many people — wholesalers, street vendors, and farmers. But the January earthquake has left the rice market in shambles.

By the summer of 2008, the price of rice had increased five times from the average price in 2005. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Responding to the Global Food Crisis

The following post is from One Table, a Mercy Corps campaign to fight world hunger by investing in the world's women.

Rice is incredibly important for delta communities. Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy Corps

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Burmese Farmers Caught in Poverty Trap

Mercy Corps has started an agency blog to give a glimpse into the work, thoughts and ideas of our team around the world. Here's a post I wrote yesterday that is really appropriate for Global Envision.

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Rice...It's Totally Intense

A new wave sweeping the rice cultivators of the world is The System of Rice Intensification, or SRI. Simply put, SRI is an agricultural method which helps to increase the amount of rice produced.

Around 22 percent of the Brazilian Amazon is owned by various Indian tribes. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoffreitas/1470195542/">leoffreitas (flickr)</a>

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Forest Fight

The fate of the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, hangs in the balance.

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Cost of Rice Latest Indicator of Food Risk

Rising rice prices have created new problems for those countries, mostly in Asia, which depend on a large, inexpensive supply of the food, according to the Financial Times.

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