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Caption: A woman farmer in Togo applies urea fertilizer to her crop. Hardest hit by the current high prices of food and fertilizer are hundreds of millions of small farmers in developing countries who live on less than $1 a day. Many could not afford fertilizers even before the current price increase.
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