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“Interdependence is the name of the game”

Throughout October food aid such as rice, oil and lentils, a ration of tea, sugar, tomato paste and pasta, will be made available to some 194,000 Iraqis. Julian Weinberg/IRIN
Reacting to our recent report on the food crisis: GLOBAL: Donor response to food crisis inadequate, agencies say, Pete Matassa, a subscriber and reader, says:

”As the article notes, while the financial crisis is at center stage right now, other important topics such as the food crisis are being ignored. It should be noted that in today's global environment, interdependence is the name of the game. Indeed, crises where one factor `infects’ others and brings the market to the verge of collapse are part of the symptoms of modern economic globalization.”

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