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'Slow Poison' - India, UP - March - April 2008 www.alexmasi.co.uk

An elderly woman is bargaining the price of her vegetables with a local shop owner in the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, on Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008. As contamination endanger the yield of the fields, a large agricultiural country like India cannot keep up with production and demand thus fuelling the latest food inflation crises that has sparked riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt and that has already plunged 100 millions people into poverty worldwide.

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An elderly woman is bargaining the price of her vegetables with a local shop owner in the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, on Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008. As contamination endanger the yield of the fields, a large agricultiural country like India cannot keep up with production and demand thus fuelling the latest food inflation crises that has sparked riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt and that has already plunged 100 millions people into poverty worldwide.
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