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import fertiliser. these are huge numbers, 35 out of 55 countries, meaning there is a great deal of dependence. work being done by the african development bank now shows that in many countries food prices are rising by 20 50% already. this is huge. so my worry is that we have a food crisis that is brewing and that could become worse. now, at the wto, what we are trying to say and do, and i am very happy to say that many of our members are responding, is to not put in export restrictions and prohibitions, keeping food that you have. again, it is a natural reaction of policymakers to say, look, we have a problem, we must safeguard as much as we can for our population. but there are countries that do have extra in their buffer stocks. what we are really talking about is releasing those onto the world food market

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