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Hunger Summit and the Olympics - Ben Jennings' new cartoon

By Glyn Thomas, 21 August 2012

Ben Jennings has this month produced a cartoon reflecting the Olympics and the recent 'hunger summit'.

Did the summit address the root causes of food and fuel price spikes? Or did it risk further entrenching the root causes of hunger? The cartoon highlights the names of three multinational businesses who all had a place at discussions last week.

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