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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: To Fight Food Prices, S. Africa Urges Return to Farming


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An electrical storm lights the night sky over a vegetable farm near Groblersdal, South Africa, in December 2006.

In 2008 government officials began calling for poor South Africans to again take up the country's tradition of subsistence farming to ease the burden of soaring global food prices.

AP Photo/Denis Farrell