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-The New Economics of Hunger (1st installment)--The food price shock now roiling world markets is destabilizing governments, igniting street riots and threatening to send a new wave of hunger rippling through the world's poorest nations. It is outpacing even the Soviet grain emergency of 1972-75, when world food prices rose 78 percent, reports Faiola.

-Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice (2nd installment)--Mauritania, and much of Africa, relies on imported food. As trade breaks down, destitute people face tough choices. Like most of the world's poorest nations, Mauritania is caught in a global food trap, producing only 30 percent of what its people eat and importing most of the rest. As prices skyrocket, those who can least afford it are squeezed the most as the world confronts the worst bout of food inflation since the Soviet grain crisis of the 1970s, reports Faiola.

-VIDEO by Emmy award-winning videographer Travis Fox captures the story of two Mauritanian families in a destitute village struggling to feed their children as prices for basic foods sky-rocket. See the report here.