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Confidential Daily Comment
Global Food Shortages
The world is waking up to a shortage of raw commodities. There is now price fixing, rationing and famine. It is set to get much worse.
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It's hard to fathom that a nation can run out of food. Particularly one that has been in receipt of so much aid and handouts from other countries that Lebanon has.
But that's essentially what has happened.
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