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Food, not so glorious food

World food production and consumption is going through one of the greatest periods of change in history. So what is happening and how is it likely to affect you and the food on your plate?

What can a lunch at the canteen in the ±«Óãtv's World Service's headquarters at Bush House in London tell us about the iniquities of world food production and consumption?

Quite a lot, it turns out.

Tim Lang, the world's only professor of Food Policy, and Knox Chitiyo, Africa fellow at the foreign policy think tank Chatham House, join Justin Rowlatt for a meal to discuss the politics and economics of world food.

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18 minutes

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Tue 15 May 2012 11:32GMT
±«Óãtv World Service Online

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