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The Global Food Crisis: in pictures

A selection of images illustrating the current escalation in the cost of food, how it has come about and the effect it is having on poor people worldwide.

Enthusiastic participants of a school feeding programme in Malawi.

Oxfam is working with rural communities and farmers like Victoria to help them cope with rising prices.

Trading at the central market in Rosso, Mauritania.

Ignacio Jimenez, wheat farmer, Mexico.

Mr Bartolomeus' ancestral land was recently cleared by a palm oil company. The concession, given without the consent of villagers, covers 8,000 hectares. 4,000 has been cleared so far.

When floods hit Bihar in India in 2007, flood waters rose 8-10 feet.

The art of making clay ovens is passed down from generation to generation.

Oxfam's support means a number of schools in Haiti can provide wholesome meals five days a week, to more than 450 students who might not otherwise get regular food.

Oxfam campaigners highlight the effects of biofuel production on world food security at the World Food Summit in Rome, June 2008.

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